Pre-Greek
Title | Pre-Greek PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Beekes |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2014-08-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 900427944X |
Before the arrival of the Indo-European Greeks in the area around the Aegean Sea, a non-Indo-European language was spoken there which was eventually replaced by Greek. Although no written texts exist in this Pre-Greek language, Robert Beekes shows that we can reconstruct elements of its phonology and morphology on the basis of the substantial amount of Pre-Greek vocabulary which was absorbed by Greek. In addition to the general characteristics of Pre-Greek, Beekes provides a complete overview of the evidence, comprising over 1100 Greek etyma which are certainly of Pre-Greek origin. The book thus opens a window on the first Pre-Indo-European language of prehistoric Europe to have left a trace in history.
Greeks and Pre-Greeks
Title | Greeks and Pre-Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Margalit Finkelberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 7 |
Release | 2006-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139448366 |
By systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC. The main thesis of this book is that the Greeks started their history as a multi-ethnic population group consisting of both Greek-speaking newcomers and the indigenous population of the land and that the body of 'Hellenes' as known to us from the historic period was a deliberate self-creation. The book addresses such issues as the structure of heroic genealogy, the linguistic and cultural identity of the indigenous population of Greece, the patterns of marriage between heterogeneous groups as they emerge in literary and historical sources, the dialect map of Bronze Age Greece, the factors responsible for the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and finally, the construction of the myth of the Trojan War.
A History of Ancient Greek
Title | A History of Ancient Greek PDF eBook |
Author | Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 43 |
Release | 2007-01-11 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521833078 |
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A History of Greek Philosophy
Title | A History of Greek Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | William Dameron Guthrie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 2 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN |
Pre-Greek Art
Title | Pre-Greek Art PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Cross |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Art, Ancient |
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Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
Title | Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Carol S. Lipson |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 079148503X |
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.
Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources
Title | Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond A. Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
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