Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity
Author:   Giovanni Manetti ,  Christine Richardson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253336842


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   22 March 1993
Format:   Hardback
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It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates.""-Umberto Eco Available in English for the first time is Professor Manetti's brilliant study of the origin of semiotics and sign theory. He seeks to discover the common thread that runs through the classical world from the very beginning of human thought to the fourth century A.D. In the ""classical"" tradition he sees a concept of the sign which is significantly different from that currently in use.

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Author:   Giovanni Manetti ,  Christine Richardson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780253336842


ISBN 10:   0253336848
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   22 March 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments Introduction One. Mesopotamian Divination Two. Greek Divination Three. Signs and Semiosic Processes in Greek Medincine Four. Plato Five. Language and Signs in Aristotle Six. Theory of Language and Semiotics in the Stoic Philosophers Seven. Inference and Language in Epicurus Eight. Philodemus: De Signis Nine. Latin Rhetoric Ten. Augustine Notes Bibliography

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GIOVANNI MANETTI is a teacher and researcher in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Bologna. CHRISTINE RICHARDSON is in the Department of Languages at the University of Bologna.

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