transformer of cultures, as Harold Innis was the first to 
show.

The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an 
individual ego.

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

The Greek “point of view” in both art and chronology has little 
in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle 
Ages.

The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties 
after the interiorization of the alphabet.