[PDF] Greek Writing From Kuanos To Homer eBook

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195355660

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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.

Author : Edward Capps
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Greek literature
ISBN :

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Bibliographical appendix: p. 457-464.

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Greek language
ISBN : 0195105206

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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.

Author : Barry B. Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521036313

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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.

Author : Edward Capps
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2014-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781497808188

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

Author : Wilmer Cave France Wright
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781355201816

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