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The Early Greek Alphabets - Origin, Diffusion, Uses (Hardcover)
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The Early Greek Alphabets - Origin, Diffusion, Uses (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
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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 well as consonants. Rather than creating
a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest
attestations show a very great degree of diversity, as areas of the
Greek-speaking world established their own regional variants. This
volume asks how, when, where, by whom and for what purposes Greek
alphabetic writing developed. Anne Jeffery's Local Scripts of
Archaic Greece (1961), re-issued with a valuable supplement in
1990, was an epoch-making contribution to the study of these
issues. But much important new evidence has emerged even since
1987, and debate has continued energetically about all the central
issues raised by Jeffery's book: the date at which the Phoenician
script was taken over and adapted to write vowels with separate
signs; the priority of Phrygia or Greece in that process; the
question whether the adaptation happened once, and the resulting
alphabet then spread outwards, or whether similar adaptations
occurred independently in several paces; if the adaptation was a
single event, the region where it occurred, and the explanation for
the many divergences in local script; what the scripts tell us
about the regional divisions of archaic Greece. There has also been
a flourishing debate about the development and functions of
literacy in archaic Greece. The contributors to this volume bring a
range of perspectives to bear in revisiting Jeffery's legacy,
including chapters which extend the scope beyond Jeffery, by
considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in
southern Italy, and on coins.
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