Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Sources xi
5. SILENCE IN THE LAND OF LOGOS
6. Introduction 3
7. Chapter One. Religious Silence without an Ineffable God 9
8. Chapter Two. A Silent Body in a Sonorous World: Silence and Heroic Values in the Iliad 46
9. Chapter Three. The Poet’s Voice against Silence 82
10. Chapter Four. “I Will Be Silent”: Figures of Silence and Representations of Speaking in Athenian Oratory 116
11. Chapter Five. Words Staging Silence 158
12. Chapter Six. Silence and Tragic Destiny 193
13. Chapter Seven. Silence, a Herald of Death 213
14. Chapter Eight. Silence, Ruse, and Endurance: Odysseus and Beyond 252
15. Conclusion 289
16. Select Bibliography 293
17. Index 309