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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824454503321

Autore

Robb Kevin

Titolo

Literacy and paideia in ancient Greece / / Kevin Robb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-19-770477-8

1-280-76014-1

0-19-536316-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 310 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

302.2/244/0938

Soggetti

Education - Greece

Greek language - Social aspects - Greece

Literacy - Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I. The Origins of Greek Literacy; 1. The Alphabet Enters Oral Greece; 2. The Oral Way of Life at the Inception of Greek Literacy: The Lesson of the Old Inscriptions; 3. Of Muses and Magistrates: From the Exemplum of Epic to the First Written Laws in Europe; Part II. The Alliance between Literacy and the Law; 4. Literacy and Residual Oralism in the Great Code of Gortyn: The Evidence of a Transitional Document; 5. The Progress of Literacy and Written Law in Athens; Part III. The Alliance between Literacy and Paideia

6. The Epical Basis of Greek Paideia in the Late Fifth Century: Ion and Euthyphro; 7. Advancing Literacy and Traditional Greek Paideia: Mousike and Sunousia; 8. Mimesis Banished: The Alliance of Literacy and Paideia in Fourth-Century Athens; 9. Conclusion: Homer, the Alphabet, and the Progress of Greek Literacy and Paideia; 10. Epilogue: A Linguistic and Historical Analysis of the Invention of the Greek Alphabet; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study traces the progress of literacy in Ancient Greece from its origins in the 8th century BC to the 4th century BC, when the major cultural institutions of Athens became totally dependent on alphabetic literacy.