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A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.
Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
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Pages: 302
Authors: Roger D. Woodard
Categories: Greek language
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology -
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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
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A New Companion to Homer
Language: en
Pages: 784
Authors: Ian Morris
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This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields