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He casts the polis as a political revolution, the alphabet as a language revolution, and Homer as an intellectual revolution in how Greeks imagined the world.
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Language Revolution
He casts the polis as a political revolution, the alphabet as a language revolution, and Homer as an intellectual revolution in how Greeks imagined the world.
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"...political revolution. It's forever transformed society, okay? The alphabet was a language revolution. It forever transformed the way people communicated with each other. And..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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