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Early Greek Alphabetic Writing
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-31 - Publisher: Oxbow Books

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Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversit
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Barry B. Powell
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.
The Early Greek Alphabets
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Robert Parker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as
Ancient Greek Letter Writing
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Paola Ceccarelli
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificit
Alpha Beta
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: John Man
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-31 - Publisher: Random House

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The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordi