caa a22 4500 386318727 CHVBK 20180307111617.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00075219 doi S0003598X00075219 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00075219 The social context of literacy in Archaic Greece and Etruria [Elektronische Daten] 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. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988 Stoddart Simon Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG Whitley James British School at Athens, 52 Odos Souedias, Gr-10676, Athens, Greece Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/237(1988-12), 761-772 0003-598X 62:237<761 1988 62 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00075219 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00075219 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stoddart Simon Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Whitley James British School at Athens, 52 Odos Souedias, Gr-10676, Athens, Greece NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/237(1988-12), 761-772 0003-598X 62:237<761 1988 62 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge