Early Greek Alphabetic Writing
«I would recommend the book to scholars of Early Greek writing but also to grapholinguists of all backgrounds who are interested in the application of a diachronic comparative approach.»
The Classical Review
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. Les mer
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By examining the grapheme-phoneme relationships across Greek-speaking regions, it is possible to recognise that diversity and to draw connections with neighbouring contemporaneous alphabets, such as those for Phrygian, Eteocretan and Etruscan. This work, carried out within the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) project, aims to contribute towards the conceptualisation of the so-called epichoric scripts as independent alphabets, as well as their framing within the ecology of ancient Mediterranean writing systems.
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxbow Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781789257434
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 24 x 17 cm
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«I would recommend the book to scholars of Early Greek writing but also to grapholinguists of all backgrounds who are interested in the application of a diachronic comparative approach.»
The Classical Review