Colvin A Brief History of Ancient Greek

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61072-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Brief Histories of the Ancient World

A Brief History of Ancient Greek accessibly depicts thesocial history of this ancient language from its Indo-Europeanroots to the present day.
* Explains key relationships between the language and literatureof the Classical period (500 - 300 BC)
* Provides a social history of the language which transliteratesand translates all Greek as appropriate, and is thereforeaccessible to readers who know little or no Greek
* Written in the framework of modern sociolinguistic theory,relating the development of Ancient Greek to its social andpolitical context
* Reflects the latest thinking on subjects such as KoinéGreek and the relationship between literary and vernacularGreek

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colvin, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vi
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
1 The Indo-European Beginnings 1
2 An Aegean Co-Production 17
3 Mycenean Greek 32
4 The Dark Ages 51
5 The Alphabet 68
6 The Greek Dialects 89
7 Homer and the Epic Tradition 113
8 The Language of Greek Poetry 134
9 Bare Words: The Start of a Common Language 156
10 Greek to Romaic and Back 178
Appendix: The Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation 200
Abbreviations and Symbols 202
Glossary 204
References 207
Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Colvin is Reader in Classics and Historical Linguistics at University College London. Previously, he was Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Yale. He is the author of Dialect in Aristophanes (1999), A Historical Greek Reader (2007), and editor of The Greco-Roman East: Politics, Culture, Society (2004).