Homer and the origin of the Greek alphabet / Barry B. Powell
- Bib ID:
- 528262
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- Author:
- Powell, Barry B
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1991
- xxv, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521371570
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- Machine derived contents note: 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 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
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-276) and index.
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