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 | | In Greece during the period from roughly the 540s to the 320s BCE, the manner in which knowledge and the artifacts of intellectual culture were produced and disseminated underwent a fundamental change from oral to written. |
 | | Nevertheless, a transition is unmistakable: before the classical period, live speech still dominated formal artistic and intellectual communication; afterwards, as the basic institutions of the Hellenistic world were taking hold, written texts had replaced oral communication for many forms of cultural transmission. |
 | | 330 BCE), fifth-century literary aesthetics, which had been dominated by tragedy, was giving way to new forms of literary creativity that flourished in the Hellenistic period. |
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