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Eric A. Havelock and Jackson P. Hershbell, eds. Communication Arts in the Ancient World, Humanistic Studies in the Communication Arts (New York: Hastings House, 1978).A collection of nine essays on subjects as diverse as the Greek alphabet, Aristotle, learning to write in the ancient world, the telegraph, art and art history, rhetoric and visual aids, and historiography. Separately annotated are Havelock (1978b), Russo (1976b), and Gentili and Cerri. Area: AG, LT, CP
Eric A. Havelock. The Greek Concept of Justice: From its Shadow in Homer to its Substance in Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Considers the shift from Homer to Plato, from "a justice orally managed to a justice formulated in writing" (p. 2). Like Havelock 1963, it also discusses the storage and retrieval system comprised by Homeric epic, a continuous and dynamic inventory put before the society via oral performance and helping to mold the society over time. Chapters cover legality, morality, and justice in the Iliad and Odyssey, and also in Hesiod. Views justice as a concept imbedded in its mimetic action until literacy assists in cleaving the two and forming an abstract principle that exists apart from its application. Area: AG
Eric A. Havelock. Prologue to Greek Literacy. University of Cincinnati Classical Studies, 2nd ser., 2:329-91. Rpt. in The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press as "The Transcription of the Code of a Non-Literate Culture," pp. 89-121, and as "The Character and Content of the Code," pp. 122-49.A social history of literacy in ancient Greece, with stress on the storage of cultural information in the rhythmic oral epic (cp. Havelock 1963). Argues that the invention of the Greek alphabet made transcription of this oral record possible. Includes examples of decoding the narrative to reveal data on custom, religious belief, agriculture, crafts, and so on. Sees epic structures such as formulas and narrative rings as originating in the need for oral mnemonics. Area: AG
Eric A. Havelock. "Oral Composition in the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles." New Literary History, 16:175-95.Studies the nature of the Greek drama, which was composed in writing but performed orally and before a live audience and which demonstrates that acoustic echoes of the sort inherent to African oral traditional mnemonics played a significant role in its composition. Area: AG, AF, CP
Eric A. Havelock. The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press.A group of thirteen of his essays, twelve of them reprinted (from 1966a, 1966b, 1971 [2], 1976 [4], 1977, 1978b, 1979, 1980) and the introduction newly published (1982b). Area: AG
Eric A. Havelock. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Rpt. 1982.Working from Platonic and pre-Socratic pronouncements on the nature of Homeric poetry and from an understanding of the epics as oral tradition, he seeks to demonstrate the ongoing mimetic function of the Iliad and Odyssey: "poetry is central in the educational theory. It occupied this position so it seems in contemporary society, and it was a position held apparently not on the grounds that we would offer, namely poetry's inspirational and imaginative effects, but on the ground that it provided a massive repository of useful knowledge, a sort of encyclopedia of ethics, politics, history, and technology which the effective citizen was required to learn as the core of his educational equipment. Poetry represented not something we call by that name, but an indoctrination which today would be comprised in a shelf of text books and works of reference" (p. 27). Includes comments on oral performance, audience, and the role and meaning of formulaic structure. Constitutes his major contribution to scholarship; a seminal work. Area: AG
Eric A. Havelock. "The Alphabetization of Homer." In Communication Arts in the Ancient World. Ed. Eric A. Havelock and Jackson P. Hershbell. Humanistic Studies in the Communication Arts. New York: Hastings House. pp. 3-21. Rpt. in The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. pp. 166-84.Starting with a comparison of passages from Gilgamesh and the Iliad, he hypothesizes a lost oral epic far richer than either poem and goes on to speculate on the dynamics of Homeric oral epic. Describes the function of the oral encyclopedia, the echoic principle of sound and idea association, the dream metaphor for oral epic composition, dating through alphabetization, and the necessity for understanding oral modes of thought. Area: AG, SU, CP
Eric. A. Havelock. "The Oral and the Written Word: A Reappraisal." In The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 3-38.Argues that the history of Greek literature and thought needs to be rewritten in light of the modulation from oral to literate modes of expression. An "explosive technology" that revolutionized the Greek mind, the alphabet gradually produced a shift from procedure to principle, from a discourse of action to a discourse of reflection or analysis. Surveys broad historical periods and genres as an introduction to the essays that comprise the Lit Rev volume. Area: AG
Eric A. Havelock. "Pre-literacy and the Pre-Socratics." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London), 13:44-67. Rpt. in The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. pp. 220-60.Examines the pre-Socratics for evidence of their interaction with oral culture. Analyses of the philosophical fragments of Xenophanes of Colophon, Heraclitus, and Parmenides indicate that they all "composed within an oral culture: that the world view of that culture was still furnished by Homer and Hesiod: that the philosopher's task was of necessity to revise this world view and the language in which it was expressed: and yet that at the same time he can argue for change only within a frame of reference supplied by his traditional prototypes" (63). Area: AG
Eric A. Havelock. "Thoughtful Hesiod." Yale Classical Studies, 20:59-72. Rpt. in The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. pp. 208-19.Portrays Hesiod in the Works and Days as attempting (and ultimately failing) to manipulate and even escape his tradition, viewing the poetic process "as one of topicalization carried on within the existing matrix of narrative oral poetry" (72). Area: AG
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