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Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

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 | #2631054 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  1996-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.71 x5.98l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 308 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| How one man invents the most important technology ever|By Molly Johnson|This book is a carefully thought out, scholarly presentation uniting a large sum of indirect but consistent evidence into one compelling theory about the origin of our alphabet. The author clearly indicates which conclusions are speculative, which more certain, but he is always persuasive and often fascinat| |' ... this is a book which is as remarkable for the ingenuity of its answers to difficult questions as it is for its useful review and compelling display of so much of the relevant evidence.' Bryn Mawr Classical

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What caused the invention of the Greek alphabet? Who did it, and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the use of alphabetic writing. The author declares his conclusion to be a possibly surprising one--that a single man, perhaps from the island of Euboea, invented the Greek alphabet specifically in order to record the Iliad and th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet   |  Barry B. Powell. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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