The textualization of the Greek alphabet / Roger D. Woodard, University of Buffalo ; with a chapter by David A. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodard, Roger D., author.

Scott, David A., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Alphabet.

Greek language.

Greek language--History.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Background

2. The Associative Structure Of The Copper Plaques

2.0. Introduction

2.1. Alpha

2.2. Beta

2.3. Gamma

2.4. Delta

2.5. Epsilon

2.6. Digamma

2.7. Zeta

2.8. Eta

2.9. Theta

2.10. Iota

2.11. Kappa

2.12. Lambda

2.13. Mu

2.14. Nu

2.15. Xi

2.16. Omicron

2.17. Pi

2.18. San

2.19. Qoppa

2.20. Rho

2.21. Sigma

2.22. Tau

3. Physical And Chemical Examination Of The Copper Plaques / David A. Scott

3.0. Introduction

3.1. Electron Probe Microanalysis

3.2. Binocular Bench Microscopy

3.3. X-radiography

3.4. Optical Metallography

3.5. The Patina

3.6. Scanning Electron Microscopy

3.7. X-ray Diffraction Analysis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-72292-6

1-107-72063-X

1-107-72779-0

1-139-23569-9

1-107-72378-7

1-107-73015-5

1-107-73190-9

1-107-72839-8