Hello all,
I'm interested in the reasoning process of discovering
meaning in the ancient artifacts of the classical
world. Althought this is a fairly commom procedure for
classicists, there's little enphasis on the
methodological and theoretical problems it arouses in
the publications available...Instead, there's more use
of symbolic inferences than the explicit intention of,
for instance, discovering the several different ways
that symbols can be explained, given apropriate
contexts.... Is it correct to use a modern way of
viewing symbols or is it better to try to figure out
in the first place the way the ancients themselves
believed that the symbols should be interpreted?
I am thinking in particular in TODOROV'S book,
Theories of Symbols....
Is there any publications or net references that deal
with these problems?
Thanks in advance,
Marcelo H. Marotta
Graduate Student, Classical Archaeology
University of São Paulo
Brazil
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