This forms part of the interdisciplinary research seminar series on Greece, Rome, and Media Theory to run online this term.

This talk aims to investigate a strange entry in Hesychius’ 5th century AD lexicon explaining Homeric word use. This entry is interesting as it gives a very technical, and as we might say, “media-technical” interpretation of what it means to be human. Humans are not only defined by having language but by submitting it to a certain technical treatment (sound stream segmentation). I shall try to give some ideas on the great systematic relevance of the analytical technique in question (e.g. writing, time-reckoning, mathematics).

To register for this seminar, please visit: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckf--tqjkpHdWuMEzmkayM-TpxlRqu0oWL