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Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece

By Kevin Robb

Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece Social Sciences

Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece

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Kevin Robb chronicles ancient Greece's "literate revolution", recounting how the Phoenecian alphabet silently entered Greece and, in the improved Greek version, conquered its major cultural institutions. He examines the progress of literacy from its origins in the eighth century to the fourth century B.C.E., when the major institutions of Athenian democracy - most notably law and higher education - became totally dependent on alphabetic literacy. By introducing new evidence as well as re-evaluating the older evidence, Robb shows 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 epic 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. Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece provides a fascinating look at the first society to become culturally dependent on the alphabet. In it, Robb elucidates how, in the space of four hundred years, total orality gave way to an advancing literacy. In the process of his investigation, he brings new light 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
324
Release Date:
1994-08-11
Publication Date:
1994-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195059050
ISBN13:
9780195059052
Weight:
678 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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