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Group discussion
Discussion chaired by Lindsey Fine and Michael Loy.
There is no requirement to read all or any of the papers in order to participate in the discussion; just turn up and we shall see where the conversation leads.
Suggested readings:
THOMAS, R. 1994 'Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece' in A. K. Bowman and G. Woolf (eds) Literacy and Power in the Ancient World. Cambridge, 33-50
DUHOUX, Y. 2011 'How were the Mycenaean scribes taught?' in E. Kyriakidis The Inner Workings of Mycenaean Bureaucracy. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, University of Kent, Canterbury, 19-21 September 2008 (Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichita egee V). Rome, 95-118
PAPADOPOULOS, J. K. 2016 'The early history of the Greek alphabet: new evidence from Eritrea and Methone', Antiquity 90.353, 1238-1254
Event location
Nihon Room, Pembroke College
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