Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be ...

El paso de la oralidad a la escritura alfabética es un momento decisivo en la historia de la humanidad. Sólo en este horizonte puede emerger las nociones de razón, sujeto y ...

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing ...

This book examines the progress of literacy in ancient Greece from its origins in the eighth century to the fourth century B.C.E., when the major cultural institutions of ...