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Author Bettini, Maurizio

Title The ears of Hermes : communication, images, and identity in the classical world / Maurizio Bettini ; translated by William Michael Short
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages)
Contents Hermes' ears : places and symbols of communication in ancient culture -- Brutus the fool -- Mos, mores, and mos maiorum : the invention of morality in Roman culture -- Face to face in ancient Rome : the vocabulary of physical appearance in Latin -- Sosia and his substitute : thinking the double at Rome -- Ghosts of exile : doubles and nostalgia in Vergil's Parva troia -- Death and its double : imagines, ridiculum, and honos in the Roman aristocratic funeral -- Argumentum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hermes (Greek deity) -- In literature
SUBJECT Hermes (Greek deity) fast
Subject Literature and anthropology -- Rome
Literature and anthropology -- Greece
Classical literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Classical literature
Literature
Literature and anthropology
Antike
Griechisch
Kultur
Kulturanthropologie
Kulturelle Identität
Latein
Literatur
Classical literature -- History and criticism.
Literature and anthropology -- Greece.
Literature and anthropology -- Rome.
Hermes (Greek deity) in literature.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Griechisch.
Latein.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Short, William Michael, 1977-
ISBN 9780814270684
0814270689
0814292712
9780814292716
Other Titles Orecchie di Hermes. English