The alphabetization of Homer / Eric A. Havelock -- The poetic sources of the Grek alphabet : rhythm and abecedarium from Phoenician to Greek / Kevin Robb -- How, and what, does Homer communicate? the medium and message of Homeric verse / Joseph Russo -- Aristotle as a modern propagandist / George N. Gordon -- Greeks and Romans learn to write / David Harvey -- The ancient telegraph : war and literacy / Jackson P. Hershbell -- Art as communication in ancient Greece / Christine Mitchell Havelock -- Rhetoric and visual aids in Greece and Rome / Eva Keuls -- Written and oral communication in Greek historiographical thought / Bruno Gentili and Giovanni Cerri.