Barry B. Powell,
Barry B. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Powell
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 1996
9780521589079
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
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Paperback, 308 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
e druk, 1996
ISBN13: 9780521589079
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Samenvatting
Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the use of alphabetic writing. The author reaches the conclusion that a single man, perhaps from the island of Euboea, invented the Greek alphabet specifically in order to record the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521589079
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:308
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Inhoudsopgave
Foreword: why was the Greek alphabet invented? 1. Review of criticism: what we know about the origin of the Greek alphabet; 2. Argument from the history of writing: how writing worked before the Greek alphabet; 3. Argument from the material remains: Greek inscriptions from the beginning to c. 650 BC; 4. Argument from coincidence: dating Greece's earliest poet; 5. Conclusions from probability: how the Iliad and the Odyssey were written down; Appendix I: Gelb's theory of the syllabic nature of West Semitic writing; Appendix II: Homeric references in poets of the seventh century.