Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that, despite its written
literature, ancient Greece was in many aspects an oral society. In
the first major attempt to study the implications of this
discovery, Dr. Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral
tradition in Greece and examines their interaction. Concentrating
on the plentiful evidence of Classical Athens, she shows how the
use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of
the previous oral communications. Using insights from anthropology,
the author isolates different types of Athenian oral tradition,
constructing a picture of Athenian traditions and exploring why
they changed and disappeared. Thomas researches not only the nature
of individual traditions, but the mechanisms of oral tradition and
memory in general; then the possible effect of writing on oral
tradition. This study provides crucial insights into the methods
and achievements of the Greek historians and therefore into the
very material of Greek history.
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