Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: Why Written Texts?
- 1 From Letters to Literature: Reading the “Song Culture” of Classical Greece
- 2 Writing Religion: Inscribed Texts, Ritual Authority, and the Religious Discourse of the Polis
- 3 Letters of the Law: Written Texts in Archaic Greek Law
- 4 Writing, Law, and Legal Practice in the Athenian Courts
- 5 Literacy and the Charlatan in Ancient Greek Medicine
- 6 Literacy in Greek and Chinese Science: Some Comparative Issues
- 7 Writing Philosophy: Prose and Poetry from Thales to Plato
- 8 Prose Performance Texts: Epideixis and Written Publication in the Late Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries
- 9 Writing for Reading: Thucydides, Plato, and the Emergence of the Critical Reader
- 10 Reflecting on Writing and Culture: Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change
- Bibliography
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: Why Written Texts?
- 1 From Letters to Literature: Reading the “Song Culture” of Classical Greece
- 2 Writing Religion: Inscribed Texts, Ritual Authority, and the Religious Discourse of the Polis
- 3 Letters of the Law: Written Texts in Archaic Greek Law
- 4 Writing, Law, and Legal Practice in the Athenian Courts
- 5 Literacy and the Charlatan in Ancient Greek Medicine
- 6 Literacy in Greek and Chinese Science: Some Comparative Issues
- 7 Writing Philosophy: Prose and Poetry from Thales to Plato
- 8 Prose Performance Texts: Epideixis and Written Publication in the Late Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries
- 9 Writing for Reading: Thucydides, Plato, and the Emergence of the Critical Reader
- 10 Reflecting on Writing and Culture: Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change
- Bibliography
- Index
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