The early Greek alphabets : origin, diffusion, uses / edited by Robert Parker and Philippa M. Steele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Robert, 1950- editor.

Steele, Philippa M., 1983- editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Alphabet--History.

Greek language.

Greek language--Alphabet.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 350 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Philippa M. Steele

pt. I ORIGINS

2. The Genesis of the Local Alphabets of Archaic Greece / Rudolf Wachter

3. Sounds, Signs, and Boundaries: Perspectives on Early Greek Alphabetic Writing / Nino Luraghi

4. Writing and Pre-Writing in Early Archaic Methone and Eretria / Rosalind Thomas

5. Contextualizing the Origin of the Greek Alphabet / Roger D. Woodard

pt. II ALPHABET AND LANGUAGE

6. Dodona and the Concept of Local Scripts / Alan Johnston

7. The Pronunciation of Upsilon and Related Matters: A U-Turn / Julian Mendez Dosuna

8. Letter Forms and Distinctive Spellings: Date and Context of the `New Festival Calendar from Arkadia' / Sophie Minon

pt. III THEMES AND REGIONS

9. Local Scripts on Archaic Coins: Distribution and Function / Andrew Meadows

10. Regions within Regions: Patterns of Epigraphic Habits within Archaic Crete / James Whitley

11. New Archaic Inscriptions: Attica, the Attic-Ionic Islands of the Cyclades, and the Doric Islands / Angelos P. Matthaiou

12. Boiotian Inscriptions in Epichoric Script: A Conspectus of Recent Discoveries / Nikolaos Papazarkadas

13. Etruria between the Iron Age and Orientalizing Period and the Adoption of Alphabetic Writing / Alessandro Naso

14. The Greek Alphabet in South-East Italy: Literacy and the Culture of Writing between Greeks and Non-Greeks / Kathryn Lomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

0198859945

9780198859949

OCLC:

1241732153

Publisher Number:

99989105686