Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Literacy and orality
- 3 Oral poetry
- 4 The coming of the alphabet: literacy and oral communication in archaic Greece
- 5 Beyond the rationalist view of writing: between ‘literate’ and ‘oral’
- 6 Orality, performance, and memorial
- 7 Literacy and the state: the profusion of writing
- Epilogue: the Roman world
- Bibliographical essay
- Bibliography
- Index
List of figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Literacy and orality
- 3 Oral poetry
- 4 The coming of the alphabet: literacy and oral communication in archaic Greece
- 5 Beyond the rationalist view of writing: between ‘literate’ and ‘oral’
- 6 Orality, performance, and memorial
- 7 Literacy and the state: the profusion of writing
- Epilogue: the Roman world
- Bibliographical essay
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992