Roger D. Woodard (Buffalo State University of New York)

The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781107028111
• ISBN-10: 1107028116
• Artikelnr.: 39507728

Autorenporträt

Roger D. Woodard is Andrew van Vranken Raymond Professor of Classics and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York. His visiting appointments have included the American Academy at Rome, the University of Oxford, the Centro di Antropologia e Mondo Antico dell' Università di Siena, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, and the Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig. He is author or editor of many books, including Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity; The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology; Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult; Indo-European Myth and Religion: A Manual; Ovid: Fasti (with A. J. Boyle); The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages; Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy, and On Interpreting Morphological Change: The Greek Reflexive Pronoun.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Background
2. The associative structure of the copper plaques
3. Physical and chemical examination of the copper plaques David A. Scott
4. The syntagmatic structure of the copper plaques
5. Langue et écriture
6. Of styluses and withes
7. The warp and weft of writing.