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.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient documents.

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Alphabet.

Greek language.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'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 on coins.

Contents:

Cover

The Early Greek Alphabets: Origin, Diffusion, Uses

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1: Introduction

A. History and Functions

I. How, When, Where, by Whom, and for What Purpose?

II. The One and the Many

III. Alphabet and Language

B. Regional and Thematic Studies

I. Within Greece

II. Italica

III. The End of Local Scripts

Bibliography

Part I: Origins

2: The Genesis of the Local Alphabets of Archaic Greece

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII

VIII.

IX.

X.

3: Sounds, Signs, and Boundaries: Perspectives on Early Greek Alphabetic Writing

I. From West Semitic to Greek

II. From the Greek Alphabet to the Greek Alphabets

4: Writing and Pre-Writing in Early Archaic Methone and Eretria

I. Methone

II. Eretria and the Graffiti from the Sanctuary of Apollo Daphnephoros

III. Conclusion

5: Contextualizing the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

Part II: Alphabet and Language

6: Dodona and the Concept of Local Scripts

7: The Pronunciation of Upsilon and Related Matters: A U-Turn

I. Introduction

II. The Traditional View

III. The Evidence for Front /y(ː)/

IV. The Evidence for Back /u(ː)/

IV.1 Animal Onomatopeia

IV.2 O/OY for Y and Y for O

IV.3 Wau and Diphthongs

IV.4 The Spelling ϘY

IV.5 /u/ as a Reflex of Ancient υ in Modern Dialects

V. PIE *ū̆ in Proto-Greekand in the Ancient Dialects: Fronting vs. Backing

VI. *ū̆ in Proto-Greekand Resonant + yod Clusters

VII. /u/ Fronting vis-à-visOther Phonological Changes

VII.1 Cowgill's Law

VII.2 PIE *u- &gt

Gk hu-

VII.3 Labiovelars adjacent to υ

VII.4 Proto-Greek *tū

VIII. Conclusions

Bibliography.

8: Letter Forms and Distinctive Spellings: Date and Context of the 'New Festival Calendar

I. Letter Forms and Dating of the New Arcadian Inscription

I.1 Arkadian Letter Forms from c.500 to c.350

I.2 Commentary

II. Distinctive Areal Spellings, Phonology, and Phonetics: The Origin and Context of Writing of the New Text

II.1 , beside Σ in the New Inscription: In Which Arkadian Subdialect?

II.1.a Labiovelars and Palatalizations: The Evidence

In the new inscription

In the other fifth-centuryArkadian inscriptions

In the oldest Elean inscriptions

II.1.b A Short State of the Questions of Palatalization and Affrication

II.1.c Comparison of the Arkadian Evidence

How would Mantinean have sounded?

Kynaithan T vs. and Kynaithan T vs. Tegean T

Tegean T vs. Kynaithan

II.2 The Sequence -σϝ- and the Etymology of γενεσϝα

II.2.a Representing the Sound [ts]

-σ - (&lt

*-tw-) &gt

-(σ)σ-

-σϝ- (&lt

*(d)+sw o?) &gt

-σ-

-σϝ- (later -σφ-) (&lt

*k+w a, o?) &gt

II.2.b Etymology of the New Fem. γενεσϝα, L. 14, 18

Ark. γενεσϝα not *γινεσϝα

*genh1-s-u-?

The *γενε-τύς hypothesis

III. Main Conclusion

Part III: Themes and Regions

9: Local Scripts on Archaic Coins: Distribution and Function

I. Overview of Archaic Coinage

II. Purpose

II.1 People

II.2 Peoples and Places

II.3 Denominations and Dates

III. Accidence

IV. Conclusions

Appendix: An Overview of Archaic Greek Coinage and Its Legends

10: Regions within Regions: Patterns of Epigraphic Habits within Archaic Crete

I. Introduction: On Inscriptions and Logocentrism

II. Archaic Crete: An Archaeological and Historical Historiography

III. Eastern Crete: A Region within a Region

IV. Some Conclusions: Regionalism and Epigraphic Habits

11: New Archaic Inscriptions: Attica, the Attic-Ionic Islands of the Cyclades, and the Doric Islands

I. Attica

II. Attic-Ionic Islands of the Cyclades

Doric Islands

Abbreviations

12: Boiotian Inscriptions in Epichoric Script: A Conspectus of Recent Discoveries

Appendix: The Funerary Epigram for Pythoklees

Description

Epigraphical Notes

Analysis

Acknowledgements

13: Etruria between the Iron Age and Orientalizing Period and the Adoption of Alphabetic Writing

A. Etruria between the Iron Age and Orientalizing Period (Alessandro Naso)

I. The Iron Age

II.1 The Orientalizing Period

II.2 Caere

B. The Adoption of Alphabetic Writing (Enrico Benelli)

III.1 The Beginnings of Etruscan Epigraphy

III.2 The Meaning of Possession Inscriptions

III.3 Epigraphy: Why?

IV. The Etruscan Alphabet and Its Greek Models

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

I. State and Society in Ancient Puglia

II. The Epigraphic Evidence

III. The Messapic Alphabet and Its Development

IV. The Adoption and Uses of Writing in Puglia

V. Language, Writing, and Identity

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780192603838

0192603833

9780191892363

019189236X

9780192603821

0192603825

OCLC:

1263875095