Author: Peter Kyle McCarterPublisher: Harvard Semitic Monographs
ISBN: 9780891300663
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard.
The Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet and the Early Phoenician Scripts
Author: Peter Kyle McCarterPublisher: Harvard Semitic Monographs
ISBN: 9780891300663
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard.
The Antiquity of Greek Alphabet and Early Phoenician Scripts
Author: P. Kyle McCarterPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385916
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The antiquity of the Greek alphabet and the early Phoenician scripts
Author: Pete Kyle MacCarter (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet and the Early Phoenician Scripts
Author: Pete Kyle MacCarter (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The Early Greek Alphabets
Author: Robert ParkerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198859945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
Author: Philippa M. SteelePublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789250951
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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.
Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
Author: Roger D. WoodardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195355660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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.
The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: A New Perspective
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: 9620774922
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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.
The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet
Author: Roger D. WoodardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107729300
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek antiquity, the oral poets of Indo-European tradition had been called 'weavers of words' - their extemporaneous performance of poetry was 'word weaving'. With the arrival of the new technology of the alphabet and the onset of Greek literacy, the very act of producing written symbols was interpreted as a comparable performance activity, albeit one in which almost everyone could participate, not only the select few. It was this new conceptualization of and participation in performance activity by the masses that eventually, or perhaps quickly, resulted in the demise of oral composition in performance in Greece. In conjunction with this investigation, Woodard analyzes a set of copper plaques inscribed with repeated alphabetic series and a line of what he interprets to be text, which attests to this archaic Greek conceptualization of the performance of symbol crafting.
A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages
Author: Rebecca Hasselbach-AndeePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111919329X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE in the areas of Egypt, the Levant, eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran. In addition to providing grammatical sketches of the respective languages, the book focuses on socio-linguistic questions such as language contact, diglossia, the development of literary standard languages, and the development of diplomatic languages or “linguae francae.” It also addresses the interaction of Ancient Near Eastern languages with each other and their roles within the political and cultural systems of ANE societies. Presented in five parts, The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages provides readers with in-depth chapter coverage of the writing systems of ANE, starting with their decipherment. It looks at the emergence of cuneiform writing; the development of Egyptian writing in the fourth and early third millennium BCI; and the emergence of alphabetic scripts. The book also covers many of the individual languages themselves, including Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Pre- and Post-Exilic Hebrew, Phoenician, Ancient South Arabian, and more. Provides an overview of all major language families and writing systems used in the Ancient Near East during the time period from the beginning of writing (approximately 3200 BCE) to the second century CE (end of cuneiform writing) Addresses how the individual languages interacted with each other and how they functioned in the societies that used them Written by leading experts on the languages and topics The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages is an ideal book for undergraduate students and scholars interested in Ancient Near Eastern cultures and languages or certain aspects of these languages.