Description: Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer : A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy, Hardcover by Woodard, Roger D., ISBN 0195105206, ISBN-13 9780195105209, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer : A Linguistic Interpretation
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer : A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Communication Studies, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Ancient & Classical, Literacy
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Roger D. Woodard
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
