Post originally by Matt Stevens at 2004-07-02 07:09:28
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<i>So just about every ancient Greek was an illiterate oaf, really? How then to explain the likes of Aristophanes, Solon... and all the other noted poets, philosophers, orators, and assorted sages?<i>

I'm not sure I should comment on a supplement I haven't read, but... In late Bronze Age Greece, circa 1200 BC, the overwhelming majority <i>were</i> illiterate. The great philosophers, playwrights, poets, etc. came from a much later period.