Greek Writing From Kuanos To Homer
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: R. D. Woodward |
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: OCLC:849033658 |
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: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Writing from Kuanos to Homer by : R. D. Woodward
Author |
: Roger D. Woodard |
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: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
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: 1997-06-12 |
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: 9780195355666 |
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: 0195355660 |
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: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer by : Roger D. Woodard
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.
Author |
: Roger D. Woodard |
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: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195105209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195105206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer by : Roger D. Woodard
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.
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: Edward Capps |
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Total Pages |
: 514 |
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: 1901 |
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: NYPL:33433069264541 |
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: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Homer to Theocritus by : Edward Capps
Bibliographical appendix: p. 457-464.
Author |
: Edward Capps |
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: Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 502 |
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: 2014-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1497808189 |
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: 9781497808188 |
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: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Homer to Theocritus by : Edward Capps
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
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: Herbert Jennings Rose |
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Total Pages |
: 458 |
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: 1964 |
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: OCLC:1024677770 |
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: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Handbook of Greek Literature by : Herbert Jennings Rose
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: Barry B. Powell |
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: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2007-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521036313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521036313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature by : Barry B. Powell
Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics - text, orality, myth, literacy, tradition and memorization - and then shows how such special topics relate to larger issues of cultural transmission from East to West. Several chapters are devoted to the theory and history of writing, its definition and general nature as well as such individual developments as semasiography and logosyllabography, Chinese writing and the West Semitic family of syllabaries. He shows how the Greek alphabet put an end to the multiliteralism of Eastern traditions of writing, and how the recording of Homer and other early epic poetry cannot be separated from the alphabetic revolution. Finally, he explains how the creation of Greek alphabetic texts demoticized Greek myth and encouraged many free creations of new myths based on Eastern images.
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: Edward 1866-1950 Capps |
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Total Pages |
: 558 |
Release |
: 2016-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1362121983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781362121985 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis FROM HOMER TO THEOCRITUS A MAN by : Edward 1866-1950 Capps
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: William Mure |
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Total Pages |
: 576 |
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: 1850 |
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: HARVARD:32044019554195 |
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: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece by : William Mure
Author |
: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2006-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134451043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134451040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Literary Letters by : Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the basis of works of fiction, and the formal substructure for many kinds of poem. Patricia Rosenmeyer, an authority on the history of the Greek letter, assembles in this book a representative selection of such 'literary letters', from Aelian and Alciphron to Philostrartus and the supposed letters of Themistocles. The book will be valuable for all students of Greek literature especially those studying Greek (and Latin) letter.