Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet by Barry B. Powell

Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet



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Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet Barry B. Powell
Language: English
Page: 280
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521371570, 9780521371575
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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' ... this is a book which is as remarkable for the ingenuity of its answers to difficult questions as it is for its useful review and compelling display of so much of the relevant evidence.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'[This] is an important book, and will be widely read by students of writing in other cultures as well as by Homerists, linguists, historians and archaeologists of early Greece.' Classical Philology

Book Description

What caused the invention of the Greek alphabet? Who did it, and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing-systems to the use of alphabetic writing. The author declares his conclusion to be a possibly surprising one SH that a single man, perhaps from the island of Euboea, invented the Greek alphabet specifically in order to record the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.

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