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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.

Publication Info. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2011.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014.
©2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages)
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Hermes (Greek deity) -- In literature.
Literature and anthropology -- Rome.
Literature and anthropology -- Greece.
Literature and anthropology.
Greece.
Classical literature -- History and criticism.
Classical literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Short, William Michael, 1977-
Project Muse, distributor.
Added Title Orecchie di Hermes. English.
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0814270689
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