Hi Marcelo,
I am a graduate from Southampton University in the UK and although I have
specialised in the Palaeolithic I feel that my theoretical argument about
symbolism applies to all periods. Have a look at my website on
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/c.bekker/
Hope this helps.
Yvette
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcelo Marotta" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 07 April 2002 02:01
Subject: Symbols and Meaning
> 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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