Classical Indiscretions: A Millennial Enquiry into the Status of the Classics by Maurizio Bettini

Classical Indiscretions: A Millennial Enquiry into the Status of the Classics

Maurizio Bettini

192 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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Maurizio Bettini argues that oral culture, because it does not have an inexhaustible memory at its disposal, tends to preserve its cultural inheritance. But written culture forgets nothing: but when everything can be recalled or somehow retrieved,...

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