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Eric Havelock was a British classicist. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic wing of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and '70s, he served as chair of the... See more » Eric Havelock was a British classicist. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the academic wing of the Canadian socialist movement during the 1930s. In the 1960s and '70s, 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, which saw Greek intellectual history as an unbroken chain of related ideas, Havelock broke radically with his own teachers and proposed an entirely new model for understanding the classical world, based on a sharp division between literature of the 6th and 5th centuries BC on the one hand, and the 4th on the other. Much of Havelock's work was devoted to a single thesis: that all of Western thought is informed by a profound shift in the kinds of ideas available to the human mind at the point that Greek philosophy converted from an oral to a literate form. The idea has been controversial in classical studies, and has frequently been rejected outright; however, outside his own field, Havelock has been extraordinarily influential. He and Walter J. Ong essentially founded the amorphous field that studies transitions from orality to literacy, and Havelock has been one of the most frequently cited theorists in that field. (more...) Recently featured: V for Vendetta – Ketuanan Melayu – Slate industry in Wales Archive – By email – More featured articles... | Did you know... | From Wikipedia's newest articles: * ...that Carl Westman (pictured) was one of the first Swedish architects to incorporate the Nordic National Romantic Style into his designs? * ...that despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the Indian city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave the country India on at least one occasion? * ...that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land? * ...that the most important source for early Irish history, The Chronicle of Ireland, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived? * ...that the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921? * ...that the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning, but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries? Archive – Start a new article... See less »

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