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Author : P. Kyle McCarter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385916
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Antiquity of Greek Alphabet and Early Phoenician Scripts written by P. Kyle McCarter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Kyle McCarter
Publisher : Harvard Semitic Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780891300663
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet and the Early Phoenician Scripts written by Peter Kyle McCarter and published by Harvard Semitic Monographs. This book was released on 1975 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard.
Author : Pete Kyle MacCarter (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The antiquity of the Greek alphabet and the early Phoenician scripts written by Pete Kyle MacCarter (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192603833
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Early Greek Alphabets written by Robert Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of diversity, as areas of the Greek-speaking world established their own regional variants. This volume asks how, when, where, by whom and for what purposes Greek alphabetic writing developed. Anne Jeffery's Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (1961), re-issued with a valuable supplement in 1990, was an epoch-making contribution to the study of these issues. But much important new evidence has emerged even since 1987, and debate has continued energetically about all the central issues raised by Jeffery's book: the date at which the Phoenician script was taken over and adapted to write vowels with separate signs; the priority of Phrygia or Greece in that process; the question whether the adaptation happened once, and the resulting alphabet then spread outwards, or whether similar adaptations occurred independently in several paces; if the adaptation was a single event, the region where it occurred, and the explanation for the many divergences in local script; what the scripts tell us about the regional divisions of archaic Greece. There has also been a flourishing debate about the development and functions of literacy in archaic Greece. The contributors to this volume bring a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting Jeffery's legacy, including chapters which extend the scope beyond Jeffery, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789250951
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Understanding Relations Between Scripts II written by Philippa M. Steele and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.
Author : Joseph Naveh
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Early History of the Alphabet written by Joseph Naveh and published by Brill. This book was released on 1982 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetic writing is one of the principal features of Western culture. Our knowledge of the early history, development and spread of the alphabet is constantly changing. This introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and paleography is the author's personal way of introducing this field of study on the basis of the evidence available to date.
Author : Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book History of the Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation written by Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Bernal
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464478
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Cadmean Letters written by Martin Bernal and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028116
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.
Author : John F. Healey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520073098
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Early Alphabet written by John F. Healey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages. In this generously illustrated book, John Healey outlines the basic principles of the early alphabet and describes the first attempts at alphabetic writing in the Semitic languages.
Author : Benjamin Sass
Publisher : Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium written by Benjamin Sass and published by Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry B. Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589079
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet written by Barry B. Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355660
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : C. B. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520074316
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Reading the Past written by C. B. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.
Author : YAN Pui-chi (甄沛之)
Publisher : 商務印書館（香港）有限公司,聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）
ISBN 13 : 9620774922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: A New Perspective written by YAN Pui-chi (甄沛之) and published by 商務印書館（香港）有限公司,聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a whole new perspective on the history of the birth of the Greek alphabet. It also aims to give a clear account of how ancient Greek alphabetic writing could naturally evolve into the world’s first segmental writing system, in which vowel and consonant letters are used to represent vowels and consonants respectively. This book should be of great interest to linguists and phoneticians, especially those taking an interest in the world’s writing systems. General readers who are curious about the genesis of the Greek alphabet are also likely to find the subject of the book interesting.
Author : Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257441
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Early Greek Alphabetic Writing written by Natalia Elvira Astoreca and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. The present book proposes to bring back the epichoric approach by focusing on the different ways in which the earliest epigraphic evidence represents the spoken Greek dialects. However, instead of continuing the palaeographic methodology of previous studies, this analysis follows the latest trends in grapholinguistics, more specifically the methodology of comparative graphematics. By examining the grapheme-phoneme relationships across Greek-speaking regions, it is possible to recognize that diversity and to draw connections with neighboring contemporaneous alphabets, such as those for Phrygian, Eteocretan and Etruscan. This work, carried out within the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) project, aims to contribute towards the conceptualization of the so-called epichoric scripts as independent alphabets, as well as their framing within the ecology of ancient Mediterranean writing systems. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Author : J.N. Coldstream
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135835195
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Geometric Greece written by J.N. Coldstream and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geometric Greece has long been the standard work on this absorbing period, which saw the evolution of the Greek city-states, the composition of the Homeric poems, the rise of the great Panhellenic sanctuaries and the first exodus of Greek colonists to southern Italy and Sicily. Professor Coldstream has now fully updated his comprehensive survey with a substantial new chapter on the abundant discoveries and developments made since the book's first publication. The text is presented in three main sections: the passing of the dark ages, c. 900-770 BC; the Greek renaissance, c. 770-700 BC, covered region by region, and the final part on life in eighth century Greece. Its geographical coverage in the Mediterranean ranges from Syria to Sicily, and the detailed archaeological evidence is amplified by reference to literary sources. Highly illustrated, including images of several finds never previously published, this is the essential handbook for anyone studying early Greek antiquity.
