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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