The so-called nonsense inscriptions on Ancient Greek vases : between Paideia and Paidiá /

The so-called nonsense inscriptions on Ancient Greek vases : between Paideia and Paidiá /

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Author / Creator:	Chiarini, Sara, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xiii, 543 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy ; volume 10 Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy ; v. 10.
Subject:	Vases, Greek -- Inscriptions. Inscriptions, Greek. Nonsense verses -- History and criticism. Inscriptions, Greek. Vases, Greek -- Inscriptions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11699189

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ISBN:	9789004371187 9004371184 9789004371200
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	As the first extensive survey of the ancient Greek painters' practice of writing nonsense on vases, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini provides a systematic overview of the linguistic features of the phenomenon and discusses its forms and contexts of reception. While the origins of the practice lie in the impaired literacy of the painters involved in it, the extent of the phenomenon suggests that, at some point, it became a true fashion within Attic vase painting. This raises the question of the forms of interaction with this epigraphic material. An open approach is adopted: "reading" attempts, riddles and puns inspired by nonsense inscriptions could happen in a variety of circumstances, including the symposium but not limited to it.--Page 4 of cover.
Other form:	Online version: Chiarini, Sara. So-called nonsense inscriptions on Ancient Greek vases : between Paideia and Paidiá. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004371200

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
1. Introducing Nonsense
1. What are Nonsense Inscriptions?
2. What has been Said about Nonsense Inscriptions?
2. Rethinking Prior Approaches
1. Just for the 'Beauty' of grammata?
2. Just for the Prestige of Writing?
3. ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 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 Literacy Competence
4. ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 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 ¿¿¿¿¿¿ for (Literate) Nonsense?
3. A Life Beyond the Symposion
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