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Preface to Plato

By: Eric A. Havelock

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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 taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato’s hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction—Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.

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Harvard University Press

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0674699068

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The Muse Learns to Write

Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

By: Eric Alfred Havelock

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Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

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Yale University Press

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0300043821

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The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences

By: Eric Alfred Havelock

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The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences

By: Eric Alfred Havelock

This volume brings together studies by a distinguished classical scholar that address specific problems associated with the development of literacy in ancient Greece. The articles were written over a twenty-year period and published individually in various journals and books. They deal with Greece's technological and intellectual transition from a preliterate to a literate culture, showing the effects registered by the introduction of the alphabet as the written word came to replace its oral counterpart in the literature of Greece and of Europe. Eric A. Havelock is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics at Yale University. His numerous publications include The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics (Yale), Preface to Plato (Harvard), and The Greek Concept of Justice (Harvard). Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The Muse Learns to Write

Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

By: Eric Alfred Havelock

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Preface to Plato

Preface to Plato

The Muse Learns to Write

The Muse Learns to Write

The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences

The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences

The Muse Learns to Write

The Muse Learns to Write

The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences

The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences

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