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Summary
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | |
The Genealogy of the Symbolic | p. 1 |
Symbols and Riddles: Allegorical Reading and the Boundaries of the Text | p. 21 |
Beginnings to 300 b.c.e.: Meaning from the Void of Chance and the Silence of the Secret | p. 77 |
From the Head of Zeus: The Birth of the Literary Symbol | p. 111 |
Swallowed Children and Bound Gods: The Diffusion of the Literary Symbol | p. 142 |
300 b.c.e.-200 c.e.: The Symbol as Ontological Signifier | p. 162 |
Iamblichus and the Defense of Ritual: Talismanic Symbols | p. 204 |
Moonstones and Men That Glow: Proclus and the Talismanic Signifier | p. 227 |
Epilogue | |
Symbol Traces: Post-Proclean Theories | p. 254 |
Appendix | |
Chrysippus's Reading and Authorial Intention: The Case of the Mural at Samos | p. 279 |
Bibliography of Ancient Authors | p. 283 |
Bibliography of Modern Authors | p. 285 |
Index Locorum | p. 297 |
General Index | p. 311 |
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