The Invention of Literature: From Greek Intoxication to the Latin Book by Florence Dupont

The Invention of Literature: From Greek Intoxication to the Latin Book

Florence Dupont

287 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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Writing, so often claimed as the necessary tool for social and individual progress, has another history. In classical Greece, writing was looked upon with suspicion, an attempt to subject the reader to the writer's will. The spread of books and th...

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