Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Translations Consulted xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Phrasikleia: From Silence to Sound 8
7. CHAPTER 2. I Write, Therefore I Efface Myself: The Speech-Act in the Earliest Greek Inscriptions 26
8. CHAPTER 3. The Reader and the Reading Voice: The Instrumental Status of Reading Aloud 44
9. CHAPTER 4. The Child as Signifier: The "Inscription" of the Proper Name 64
10. CHAPTER 5. The Writer's Daughter: Kallirhoe and the Thirty Suitors 80
11. CHAPTER 6. Nomos, "Exegesis," Reading: The Reading Voice and the Law 109
12. CHAPTER 7. True Metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the Tattooed Corpse of Epimenides 123
13. CHAPTER 8. Death by Writing: Sappho, the Poem, and the Reader 145
14. CHAPTER 9. The Inner Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading 160
15. CHAPTER 10. The Reader and the eromenos: The Pederastic Paradigm of Writing 187
16. Index 217