The social context of literacy in Archaic Greece and Etruria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4885980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Stoddart (0000-0002-5480-7075, Northeast Catholic College, corresponding author), James Whitley (0000-0001-9645-0505, British School at Athens) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 237 |
| Pages | 761-772 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00075219 |
| OpenAlex | W2218202234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 22 |
In recent years much emphasis has been placed upon the effects of literacy in the transformation of the Mediterranean World between 800 and 400 BC. Alphabetic scripts have been seen by many, archaeologists and classicists alike, as one of the key factors that made many of the achievements of Mediterranean, particularly Greek, thought and culture possible. Alphabetic scripts encouraged widespread literacy, and widespread literacy was the necessary condition for what remains distinctive in Ancient Greek culture, namely the development of History, Philosophy and speculative Natural Science. Murray (1980: 96) is typical in his view that 'Archaic Greece was a literate society in the modern sense.' The work of Goody & Watt (1963) has done much to advance the view that many of the achievements of Mediterranean Society can be ascribed to, if not entirely explained by, this 'technology of the intellect'. Their 'autonomous model' however, as Cartledge (1978: 37) has observed, comes dangerously close to technological determinism
Ancient Greece · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Intellect · Literacy · Literature · Natural (archaeology · Social science · Sociology · Technological determinism · Writing system · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya
The Archaeology of Etruscan Society
Writing Greek Law
Power and Place in Etruria
An Etruscan Urban Agenda
Into the Minds of Ancients
Visible writing
Reading’ Greek Vases
The Beginnings of Writing on Crete
Textualizing Athens
Monumental Writing and the Expansion of Roman Society in the Early Empire
Education and Literacy in Ancient Italy
Written law in archaic Greece
A series of unfortunate events
Crossing boundaries
Defying Death
Reading the texts
From modernism to manure
"Comparative Studies in Society and History"
Archaeology in Etruria, 1980-85
Inscriptiones Creticae, I
Further Comments on Archaic Greek Inscriptions
Excavations in the Athenian Agora
The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece
Literacy in the Athenian Democracy
The inscribed gravestones of archaic Attica
The erection and mutilation of the Hermai
Hymn to Hermes
The Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet
The Greek Alphabet Again
The Consequences of Literacy
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |