Oral tradition and written record in classical Athens / Rosalind Thomas.
By: Thomas, Rosalind [author]
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture: 18Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992, c1989Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xiii, 321 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 0521425182 (pbk.); 0521350255Subject(s): Greek language -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens | Written communication -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Oral communication -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Oral tradition -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Language and culture -- Greece -- Athens | Literacy -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Writing -- Greece -- Athens -- History | Athens (Greece) -- CivilizationDDC classification: 480/.938/5 LOC classification: PA227 | .T47 1989Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
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Summary: Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first major attempt to study the implications of this view.
Literacy, written record and oral communication -- Family tradition -- Genealogy and family tradition : the intrusion of writing -- Official tradition? Polis tradition and the epitaphios -- The liberation of Athens and the 'Alcmaeonid tradition'.
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Revision of thesis (doctoral)--London University, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-312) and index.
Literacy, written record and oral communication -- Family tradition -- Genealogy and family tradition : the intrusion of writing -- Official tradition? Polis tradition and the epitaphios -- The liberation of Athens and the 'Alcmaeonid tradition'.
Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first major attempt to study the implications of this view.
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