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Black Doves Speak Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Black Doves Speak par Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Black Doves Speak Rosaria Vignolo Munson


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Résumé

In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview.

Black Doves Speak Résumé

Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians Rosaria Vignolo Munson

In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview. The first translator of cultures also translates, describes, and evaluates foreign speech to a degree unparalleled by other Greek ancient authors. For Herodotus, language is an area of interesting but surprisingly unproblematic difference, which he offers to his audience as a model for coming to terms in a neutral way with other, more emotionally charged, cultural differences.

Black Doves Speak Avis

This short, sharp book is a welcome, easily-digested addition to the growing stable of recent works on language and other symbolic systems in Herodotus. -- Benjamin Stevens * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
An interesting and persuasive view, expounded in four chapters (bristling with footnotes and references, often half the page) which discuss the implications of more or less every reference to language in the Histories. -- Stephen Colvin * Journal of Hellenic Studies *

À propos de Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Rosaria Munson is Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College.

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Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians Rosaria Vignolo Munson
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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
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