the Greeks the archaic period represented the dawn of 
     history, and classical scholarship has not always shaken 
     off this inheritance. From this point of view it appeared 
     quite natural that the awakening of art from primitive 
     modes should have coincided with the rise of all those 
     other activities, that, for the humanist, belong to 
     civilization: the development of philosophy, of science, 
     and of dramatic poetry.

The world of the Greeks illustrates why visual appearances 
cannot interest a people before the interiorization of alphabetic 
technology.

*     The discovery that the representation of “natural 
appearances” is quite abnormal and also quite unperceptible as 
such to nonliterate peoples, has created some disturbance of