La rivoluzione letteraria: dall’ascolto alla lettura

In the development of the history of ancient Greek literature there is a break, an actual ‘revolution’, as a consequence of which we can distinguish not one, but two Greek literatures. This break lies in the passage from the oral, or better ‘aural’, phase of the literary communication to the written phase; it coincides with the birth of philology and the diffusion and growth of libraries in the Alexandrian age. The paper introduces this theme and investigates the consequences of this important passage for the concept of literature and the interpretation of literary texts.