The So-Called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases : Between Paideia and Paidiá.

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.

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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