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The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
List of contents
- 1: Robert Parker and Philippa M. Steele: Introduction
- Part I. Origins
- 2: Rudolf Wachter: The Genesis of the Local Alphabets of Archaic Greece
- 3: Nino Luraghi: Sounds, Signs, and Boundaries
- 4: Rosalind Thomas: Writing and Pre-Writing at Methone and Eretria
- 5: Roger Woodard: Contextualizing the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
- Part II. Alphabet and Language
- 6: Alan Johnston: Dodona and the Concept of Local Scripts
- 7: Julián Méndez Dosuna: The Pronunciation of Upsilon and Related Matters: A U-Turn
- 8: Sophie Minon: Letter Forms and Distinctive Spellings: Date and Context of the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia
- Part III. Themes and Regions
- 9: Andrew Meadows: Local Scripts on Archaic Coins: Distribution and Function
- 10: James Whitley: Regions within Regions: Patterns of Epigraphic Habits within Archaic Crete
- 11: Angelos Matthaiou: New Archaic Inscriptions: Attica, the Attic-Ionic Islands of the Cyclades, and the Dorian islands
- 12: Nikolaos Papazarkadas: Boeotian Inscriptions in Epichoric Script: A Conspectus
- 13: Alessandro Naso and Enrico Benelli: Etruria between the Iron Age and Orientalizing Period and the Adoption of Alphabetic Writing
- 14: Kathryn Lomas: The Greek Alphabet in South-East Italy: The Culture of Writing Between Greeks and Non-Greeks
About the author
Robert Parker was Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1976-1996, and Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford from 1996 until retirement in 2016.
Philippa M. Steele is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where she directs the ERC-funded project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS, grant no. 677758). She is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Summary
The Early Greek Alphabets brings a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting the legacy of Anne Jeffrey's work on archaic Greek scripts. The research extends the scope of Jeffrey's research, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.
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This will be a valuable resource for years to come.
