TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiarini,Sara
TI  - The So-Called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases: Between Paideia and Paidiá
T2  - Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy Series
SN  - 9789004371200
AV  - CN375.V3C45 2018 
U1  - 731/.72 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Vases, Greek--Inscriptions
KW  - Inscriptions, Greek
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introducing Nonsense -- 1 What are Nonsense Inscriptions? -- 2 What has been Said about Nonsense Inscriptions? -- Chapter 2 Rethinking Prior Approaches -- 1 Just for the 'Beauty' of grammata? -- 2 Just for the Prestige of Writing? -- Chapter 3 Περὶ παιδείας or Nonsense Inscriptions and Literacy -- 1 A Taxonomy of (Il)literacies -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 From Bottom to Top -- 1.2.1 Scattered Letters -- 1.2.2 Random Lettering -- 1.2.3 Iterative Inscriptions -- 1.2.4 Pseudo-Greek -- 1.2.5 Mock Greek -- 1.3 Summary Considerations -- 2 Learning to Write and to Read in Ancient Greece -- 3 Assessing the Nonsense Inscriptions Against the Scale of LiteracyCompetence -- Chapter 4 Περὶ παιδιᾶς or Nonsense Inscriptions and Intellectual Teasing -- 1 Literate Nonsense -- 1.1 Sense and Nonsense Kept Apart -- 1.2 Weaving Sense and Nonsense Together -- 2 The Symposion as καιρός for (Literate) Nonsense? -- 3 A Life Beyond the Symposion -- Chapter 5 What if Nonsense Did Make Sense? -- 1 Melodies and Musical Notes -- 2 Barbarika -- 3 Voices from Beyond -- 4 Summative Remarks -- Conclusion -- 1 Summary -- 2 Is it Nonsense? -- Appendix Catalogue of Vases and Fragments Carrying Nonsense Inscriptions -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of nonsense writing on Greek pottery of the late archaic and early classical age
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ER  -