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Paperback Classical Indiscretions: A Millennial Enquiry Into the Status of the Classics Book
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ISBN: 0715629700

ISBN13: 9780715629703

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

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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, the problem becomes what to remember and what to consign to oblivion.

This provocative book, written with a light touch, rooted in the Classics but ranging over the whole of Western literary culture,...

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