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1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 280 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511552700
Content:
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
Content:
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 Odyssey were written down
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521371575
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521589079
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521371575
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511552700
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