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 …
"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…
The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and o…
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of 'the Greek al…
En retraçant l'histoire du livre grec de ses origines à la période de la Renaissance, ce sont plus de deux millénaires que la conférence de Jean Irigoin fait parcourir, de la naissance de l'alphabet et du passage de l'oral à l'écrit, jusqu'aux débuts de l'imprimerie. C'est aussi…
Les lamelles oraculaires de Dodone
by Lhôte, Éric
fromHautes études du monde gréco-romain
Les lamelles oraculaires de Dodone
by Lhôte, Éric
fromHautes études du monde gréco-romain
Les lamelles oraculaires de Dodone
by Lhôte, Éric
fromHautes études du monde gréco-romain
Les lamelles oraculaires de Dodone
by Lhôte, Éric
fromHautes études du monde gréco-romain
Contains twenty-four essays, each of which examines one letter of the Greek alphabet, looking at English words that come from Greek words beginning with the letter under discussion, and exploring the aspects of Greek culture behind the borrowed words. Includes an examination of …
