Editorial: Oxbow Books
Colección: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems ; 5
Número de páginas: 160 págs. 17.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-01-2021
EAN: 9781789257434
ISBN: 978-1-78925-743-4
Precio (sin IVA): 50,81 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 52,84 €
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. The present book proposes to bring back the epichoric approach by focusing on the different ways in which the earliest epigraphic evidence represents the spoken Greek dialects. However, instead of continuing the palaeographic methodology of previous studies, this analysis follows the latest trends in grapholinguistics, more specifically the methodology of comparative graphematics.