Homer and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet

Barry B. Powell

ISBN 10: 0521371570 / ISBN 13: 9780521371575

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991

Beschreibung

Dust jacket: Light shelf wear only. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: First printing. Orange cloth binding. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise in excellent condition throughout. . Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 7.25 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xxv, 280. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1214A067

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Homer and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Erscheinungsdatum: 1991

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good Plus

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition.

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Críticas:

' ... this is a book which is as remarkable for the ingenuity of its answers to difficult questions as it is for its useful review and compelling display of so much of the relevant evidence.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'[This] is an important book, and will be widely read by students of writing in other cultures as well as by Homerists, linguists, historians and archaeologists of early Greece.' Classical Philology