Despite the adoption of their alphabet system from the Phoenicians, literacy in Greece
a. was limited only to the priests.
b. remained elusive for several centuries, relying on oral traditions.
c. was reserved for business transactions.
d. was undermined by the diversity of languages in the Greek islands.
e. divided between Phoenician and Linear B.
ANSWER:
b
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