of course designed for public reading, and long after 
     private reading became common, rhapsodes made a 
     profession of reciting epic. Pisistratus, who had 
     something (we do not know how much) to do with 
     regularizing the text of Homer, also instituted the public 
     reading of his poems at the Panathenaic festival. From 
     Diogenes Laertius (1.2.57) we learn that ‘Solon provided 
     that the public recitations of Homer shall follow a fixed 
     order; thus the second reciter must begin from the place 
     where the first left off.’

          Prose no less than poetry was presented orally, as 
     we know from reports concerning Herodotus and others, 
     and the practice of oral presentation affected the nature 
     of prose as it did of poetry. The elaborate attention to 
     sound which characterizes Gorgias’ pioneer productions