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What is Orality and literacy: In hellenic Greece about?
An examination of the relationship between writing and orality which proposes that culture flourishes when competition among media emphasizes the strength of each. Lentz builds on Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato, providing concrete evidence for Havelock's hypothesis on the importance of writing to the origins of Greek philosophy. He focuses on the interaction between the abstract thought and verbatim precision that writing reinforced and the memory and oral performance skills that were at the h
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lentz, Tony M.
- Publisher
- Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809313594
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- History, Reference, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25