The Use(s) of Inscriptions in Herodotus' Histories

Haywood, Jan

doi:10.1353/ajp.2021.0007

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“…Because impersonality was integral to its authority, Korax could not follow Achillodorus' model and inscribe 'Korax says: this is his kylix', or even that of Apatourius, 'Korax says: this is my kylix'. 71 This is true for speaking objects generally. Appending authorial prefaces would not only undermine their impersonal authority but also hinder their efficacy as speech acts.…”

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Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing

Fassberg

2023

The Class. Q.

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One of the most remarkable features of the language of early Greek writing is a pervasive rhetorical strategy which consists in personifying objects for the purpose of identifying humans closely associated with them. Such ‘speaking objects’ have no Semitic parallel; how, then, is their conventional status in the Archaic Age to be explained? This article first considers the formulaic language of speaking objects, which is no straightforward transcription of speech, and seeks to explain where it comes from. It then turns to the question of why writers employed the curious strategy of personification by setting it in the broader context of early Greek writing and literature. Variously analogous to herms, slaves and skytalai, speaking objects are shown to have been conceived as messengers acting on behalf of their senders by not speaking in their name.

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Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing

Fassberg

2023

The Class. Q.

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The Use(s) of Inscriptions in Herodotus' Histories

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