German philologist Wilamowitz, a renowned authority on Ancient Classics, thought the possibility the textual trasmission begun at the very heart of Greek Literature. The hypotesis is that it existed a panellenic circulation of written texts while great poets like Sappho and Alceo were still alive.
The great lyrics from Sappho and Alceo didn't remained buried within the boundaries of the thiasos and those of the hetaireia but they spread throught Greece not only orally but in a written form.

















