Eric Alfred Havelock (June 3 1903 - April 4 1988) was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic milieu of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he served as chair of the classics departments at both Harvard and Yale. Although he was trained in the turn-of-the-century Oxbridge tradition of classical studies, … Wikipedia
Manuscript Group 1489 compiled by Carol King January 2004 Copyright 2007 Yale University Library Overview Creator: Havelock, Eric Alfred. mssa.library.yale.edu/findaids/stream.php?xmlfile=mssa.ms...
Following Carpenter, Havelock pointed out that early Greek culture was "wholly oral" and after the invention of the alphabet, there was "a long period of resistance to the use of letters," so that literacy was not achieved in Athens until nearly three hun www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/tsc_havelock_orality_literacy.htm
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1 oA History of the Greek Mind, by Eric Alfred Havelock, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA: 1963. www.engl.niu.edu/wac/ptop.html
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