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Author | : Roger D. Woodard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1997-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195355660 |
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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.
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1996-10-28 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521589079 |
Download Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.
Author | : Roger D. Woodard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2014-03-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107729300 |
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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.
Author | : T. B. L. Webster |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317694511 |
Download From Mycenae to Homer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two.
Author | : Kieren Barry |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1999-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781578631100 |
Download The Greek Qabalah Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students of Ancient History and early Christianity, to Qabalists and modern magicians. Extensive notes and citations from original sources will make this authoritative work an essentialreference for researchers and practitioners for years to come. Includes are appendices for tables of alphabetic symbolism, a list of authors, and a numeric dictionary of Greek words, which represents the largest collection of gematria in print. Index.
Author | : David Sacks |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438110200 |
Download Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Author | : D. Gary Miller |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614512957 |
Download Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than others) but in their Lesbian veneer and mixture of Doric and Ionic forms are to some extent dialectally indistinguishable. All of the ancient authors use a literary language that is artificial from the point of view of any individual dialect. Homer has the most forms that occur in no actual dialect. In this volume, by means of dialectally and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the same period and locality in order to provide an appreciation of: the internal history of the Ancient Greek language and its dialects; the evolution of the multilectal, artificial poetic language that characterizes the main genres of the most ancient Greek literature, especially Homer / epic, with notes on choral lyric and even the literary language of the prose historian Herodotus; the formulaic properties of ancient poetry, especially epic genres; the development of more complex meters, colometric structure, and poetic conventions; and the basis for decisions about text editing and the selection of a manuscript alternant or emendation that was plausibly used by a given author.
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0520972600 |
Download Greek Poems to the Gods Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn—as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy—was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally important collections have not been readily accessible to students eager to learn about ancient poetry. In reading hymns, we also gain valuable insight into life in the classical world. In this collection, early Homeric Hymns of uncertain authorship appear along with the carefully wrought hymns of the great Hellenistic poet and courtier Callimachus; the mystical writings attributed to the legendary poet Orpheus, written as Christianity was taking over the ancient world; and finally, the hymns of Proclus, the last great pagan philosopher of antiquity, from the fifth century AD, whose intellectual influence throughout western culture has been profound. Greek Poems to the Gods distills over a thousand years of the ancient Greek hymnic tradition into a single volume. Acclaimed translator Barry B. Powell brings these fabulous texts to life in English, hewing closely to the poetic beauty of the original Greek. His superb introductions and notes give readers essential context, making the hymns as accessible to a beginner approaching them for the first time as to an advanced student continuing to explore their secrets. Brilliant illustrations from ancient art enliven and enrichen the experience of reading these poems.
Author | : Yaacov Shavit |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780714682167 |
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The effort to trace the origins of human culture to Africa, rather than to Greece as dominant European thought has long contended, says Shavit (history of the Jewish people, Tel Aviv U.), is part of obsession with initial sources--a reaction to white western supremacy--that glosses over the vast web of transmission and borrowing that comprises the history of culture. Like European origin myths, he agrees that it has value for the self-awareness of African Americans and their status in society. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Edward Capps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Greek literature |
ISBN | : |
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Bibliographical appendix: p. 457-464.