The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences / / Eric Alfred Havelock.
This volume brings together studies by a distinguished classical scholar that address specific problems associated with the development of literacy in ancient Greece. The articles were written over a twenty-year period and published individually in various journals and books. They deal with Greece&#...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Series of Collected Essays ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Oral and the Written Word: A Reappraisal
- 2. Spoken Sound and Inscribed Sign
- 3. The Pre-Greek Syllabaries
- 4. The Greek Alphabet
- 5. Transcription of the Code of a Non-Literate Culture
- 6. The Character and Content of the Code
- 7. The Ancient Art of Oral Poetry
- 8. The Alphabetization of Homer
- 9. The Preliteracy of the Greeks
- 10. Thoughtful Hesiod
- 11. Preliteracy and the Presocratics
- 12. The Oral Composition of Greek Drama
- 13. Aftermath of the Alphabet
- Index