The transmission of literature in writing began in the Greek world
with poetry; the publication of laws and regulations came later,
and prose literature last, about 500 BC. This book examines the
stages by which prose was turned into the sophisticated art-form
practised in the fourth century BC, in particular by Plato and
Demosthenes. An attempt is made to determine the linguistic
conventions which can reasonably be attributed, on the analogy of
other cultures, to unwritten narrative and oratory. The extent to
which `content' and `form' can be separated is considered, and the
stylistic choices which constitute form are treated as determining
the relationship (e.g. of authority or familiarity) between creator
and receiver and the balance sought by the creator between
innovation and deference to the receiver's expectations.
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