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Robert (Hrsg.) Parker

The Early Greek Alphabets

Origin, Diffusion, Uses

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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of diversity, as areas of the Greek-speaking world established their own regional variants. This volume asks how, when, where, by whom and for what purposes Greek alphabeticwriting developed.Anne Jeffery's Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (1961), re-issued with a valuable supplement in 1990, was an epoch-making contribution to the study of these issues… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Steele, Philippa M. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-260382-1
  • EAN: 9780192603821
  • Produktnummer: 37221098
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 4'793 KB

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Robert Parker was Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1976-1996, and Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford from 1996 until retirement in 2016.Philippa M. Steele is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where she directs the ERC-funded project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS, grant no. 677758). She is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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