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Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece

Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece

Robb, Kevin

Hardcover

General ReferenceAncient GreeceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0195059050
ISBN13: 9780195059052
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 11 1994
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.47
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This book examines the progress of literacy in ancient Greece from its origins in the eighth century to the fourth century B.C.E., when the major cultural institutions of Athens became totally dependent on alphabetic literacy. By introducing new evidence and re-evaluating the older evidence, Robb demonstrates that early Greek literacy can be understood only in terms of the rich oral culture that immediately preceded it, one that was dominated by the oral performance of epical verse, or Homer. Only gradually did literate practices supersede oral habits and the oral way of life, forging alliances which now seem both bizarre and fascinating, but which were eminently successful, contributing to the miracle of Greece. In this book new light is brought to early Greek ethics, the rise of written law, the emergence of philosophy, and the final dominance of the Athenian philosophical schools in higher education.

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