"The potentially destructive force of writing is emphasised in a passage of the Iliad (6.170-175) where a writing tablet instructs the recipient to kill the bearer: here the letters are described strikingly as "lethal marks (semata)" (Bellamy 1988)."
From John-Paul Wilson, "Literacy", in K.A. Raaflab & H. Van Wees (eds.) A Companion to Archaic Greece.
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