Learning the Alphabet: Abecedaria and the Early Schools in Greece

Authors

  • William C. West, III

Abstract

A tabulation of surviving inscribed alphabets shows that in the Archaic period the impulse and the tools to teach writing were spreading well before the invention of schools.

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Published

2014-10-14

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 1 (2015)

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