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Athena Kirk explores ancient Greek lists in new book

4/12/2021 by : Hana Aghababian Sarah Epplin , Cornell Chronicle

Athena Kirk's new book, “Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres,” argues that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text, examining the ways in which lists can “stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and approximate the infinite.”