Homer And The Origin Of The Greek Alphabet
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Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1996-10-28 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 052158907X |
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A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1385091088 |
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Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
Author | : Roger D. Woodard |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Greek language |
ISBN | : 9780195105209 |
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Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology - were transferred to the new alphabetic script. Proposing a Cypriot origin of the alphabet at the hands of previously literate adapters brings clarity to various problems of the alphabet, such as the Greek use of the Phoenician sibilant letters. The alphabet, rejected by the post-Bronze Age "Mycenaean" culture of Cyprus, was exported west to the Aegean, where it gained a foothold among a then illiterate Greek people emerging from the Dark Age. Woodard's study, a combination of philological and epigraphical investigation with linguistic theory, should be of interest to both scholars and students of classics, linguistics, and Near Eastern studies.
Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
Author | : Roger D. Woodard |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1997-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195355666 |
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Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer examines the origin of the Greek alphabet. Departing from previous accounts, Roger Woodard places the advent of the alphabet within an unbroken continuum of Greek literacy beginning in the Mycenean era. He argues that the creators of the Greek alphabet, who adapted the Phoenician consonantal script, were scribes accustomed to writing Greek with the syllabic script of Cyprus. Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script--for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology--were transferred to the new alphabetic script. Proposing a Cypriot origin of the alphabet at the hands of previously literate adapters brings clarity to various problems of the alphabet, such as the Greek use of the Phoenician sibilant letters. The alphabet, rejected by the post- Bronze Age "Mycenaean" culture of Cyprus, was exported west to the Aegean, where it gained a foothold among a then illiterate Greek people emerging from the Dark Age.
Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007-04-16 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521036313 |
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Examines the contribution of the alphabetic revolution to the genesis of archaic Greek literature.
A New Companion to Homer
Author | : Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004099891 |
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This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the "Homeric Question" to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. The collection, the third publication in Brill's handbook series, "The Classical Tradition," will be valuable at every level of study - from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship.
Alpha Beta
Author | : John Man |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781409045335 |
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The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred only once in human history: in Egypt about 4000 years ago. Alpha Beta follows the emergence of the western alphabet as it evolved into its present form, contributing vital elements to our sense of identity along the way. The Israelites used it to define their God, the Greeks to capture their myths, the Romans to display their power. And today, it seems on the verge of yet another expansion through the internet. Tracking the alphabet as it leaps from culture to culture, John Man weaves discoveries, mysteries and controversies into a story of fundamental historical significance.
Cadmean Letters
Author | : Martin Bernal |
Publsiher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0931464471 |
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Western civilization has long sought its cultural roots in the classical civilizations of the Aegean. During the twentieth century, however, it has been made increasingly clear that it owes a great debt to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent. In the thick of the debate as to how much classical civilizations were influenced by the Levant has been the question of the date of the transmission of the alphabet. In this monograph, Bernal takes up the question anew and marshals persuasive arguments that the date of transmission of the alphabet should be moved considerably earlier than generally has been thought, to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Growing out of his work on Black Athena, the intricate matters of alphabetic history and transmission are dealt with, both in terms of the history of the investigation of the topic and also with regard to the specific working out of his own new proposal.