Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The oral and written word: a reappraisal
  • Spoken sound and inscribed sign
  • The pre-Greek syllabaries
  • The Greek alphabet
  • Transcription of the code of a non-literate culture
  • The character and content of the code
  • The ancient art of oral poetry
  • The alphabetization of Homer
  • The preliteracy of the Greeks
  • Thoughtful Hesiod
  • Preliteracy and the presocratics
  • The oral composition of Greek drama
  • Aftermath of the alphabet.