The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences. Princeton Series of Collected Essays.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - Inhalt: The Oral and the Written Word: A Reappraisal -- Spoken Sound and Inscribed Sign -- The Pre-Greek Syllabaries -- The Greek Alphabet -- Transcription of the Code of a Non-Literate Culture -- The Character and Content of the Code -- The Ancient Art of Oral Poetry -- The Alphabetization of Homer -- The Preliteracy of the Greeks -- Thoughtful Hesiod -- Preliteracy and the Presocratics -- The Oral Composition of Greek Drama -- Aftermath of the Alphabet. - 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's technological and intellectual transition from a preliterate to a literate culture, showing the effects registered by the introduction of the alphabet as the written word came to replace its oral counterpart in the literature of Greece and of Europe. (Verlagstext). ISBN 9780691000268