Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/00585_Field_ML PU T4.txt

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London-born Eric Havelock (1903­1988) was a leading scholar of ancient
Greek culture. He was a professor of Classics at Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1926­9), and at Victoria College, University of
Toronto (1929­47). Havelock went on to teach at Harvard University
from 1947­60, and later at Yale (1963­ 71). McLuhan was greatly
impressed with Havelock’s seminal book Preface to Plato  (1963) which
examined the profound effect of the alphabet on the oral culture of
ancient Greece.