Author: Frank Byron Jevons
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Frank Byron Jevons
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Ian Worthington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190263563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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The first ever biography of Demosthenes written in English for a popular audience, set against the rich backdrop of late classical Greece and Macedonia

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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: Frank Byron Jevons
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Kevin Robb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195059050
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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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.

Author: Richard Leo Enos
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1602352151
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts, gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this revised and expanded edition of Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. This new evidence, along with recent developments in research methods and analysis, reveal clearly that long before Aristotle’s Rhetoric, long before rhetoric was even stabilized into formal systems of study in Classical Athens, nascent, pre-disciplinary “rhetorics” were emerging throughout Greece.

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1966

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Author: New York State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 868

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