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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Background; 2 The Associative Structure of the Copper Plaques; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Alpha; 2.2 Beta; 2.3 Gamma; 2.4 Delta; 2.5 Epsilon; 2.6 Digamma; 2.7 Zeta; 2.8 Eta; 2.9 Theta; 2.10 Iota; 2.11 Kappa; 2.12 Lambda; 2.13 Mu; 2.14 Nu; 2.15 Xi; 2.16 Omicron; 2.17 Pi; 2.18 San; 2.19 Qoppa; 2.20 Rho; 2.21 Sigma; 2.22 Tau; 3 Physical and Chemical Examination of the Copper Plaques; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Electron Probe Microanalysis; 3.2 Binocular Bench Microscopy; 3.3 X-Radiography. |
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3.4 Optical Metallography3.5 The Patina; 3.6 Scanning Electron Microscopy; 3.7 X-Ray Diffraction Analysis; 3.8 Conclusions; 4 The Syntagmatic Structure of the Copper Plaques; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Narrow Orthographic Transcriptions of the Copper Plaques; 4.2 Broad Orthographic Transcriptions of the Copper Plaques; 4.3 Alphabetic Variation in the Copper Plaques; 5 Langue et Écriture; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Arbitrariness: Part 1; 5.2 Distinctiveness and Ambiguity; 5.3 Arbitrariness: Part 2; 5.3.1 Greek Writing; 5.3.2 Semitic and Egyptian Writing; 5.4 Alphabetic Order. |
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5.5 Language and Non-Language6 Of Styluses and Withes; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 Mu Eta Lamda Eta (mêlê); 6.1.1 Sigma Mu Lamda Eta (smilê) and Mu Eta Lamda Eta (mêlê); 6.1.2 the common origin of Sigma Mu Lamda Et (smilê) and Mu Eta Lamda Eta (mêlê); 6.2 Lamda Upsilon Zeta Eta (luzdê); 6.2.1 Lamda Upsilon Gamma Omicron Sigma (lugos) and plaiting / weaving; 6.2.2 Lamda Upsilon Gamma Omicron Sigma (lugos) as a synonym for aGamma Nu Omicron Sigma (agnos); 6.2.3 On Samos: Part 1; 6.2.4 Lamda Upsilon Gamma Omicron Sigma (lugos) and the oldest trees; 6.2.5 On Samos: Part 2. |
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6.2.6 Sigma Alpha Nu Iota Sigma (sanis) and Sigma Mu Iota Lamda Iota Sigma (smilis)6.2.7 Sigma Mu Iota Lamda Iota Sigma (smilis) and Sigma Mu Lamda Eta (smilê); 6.2.8 On Samos: Part 3; 6.2.9 A Lexical Matrix of Cult and Writing as (Cult) Performance; 6.2.10 Lamda Upsilon Gamma Iota Zeta Omega (Lugizdô): a Secondary Formation; 6.2.11 Lamda Upsilon Zeta Eta (luzdê): a Primary Formation; 6.3 Sigma Epsilon(se) and Alpha Beta Gamma Delta (abgd); 6.4 On Samos: Part 4; An Addendum on ms 2-2, Lines 10/11; 7 The Warp and Weft of Writing; 7.0 Introduction; 7.1 Confusion of Language and Script. |
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7.2 Poetic Weaving7.2.1 Pindar and Bacchylides; 7.2.2 Archaic Greece; 7.2.3 Common Indo-European Tradition; 7.3 Weaving of a Written Text; 7.3.1 Weaving of Alphabetic Letters; 7.3.2 Latin Alphabetic Interweaving; 7.4 Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Literary, Linguistic, and Alphabetic Weaving; 7.5 St. Jerome and Alphabetic Interweaving; 7.6 West Semitic Alphabetic Interweaving; 7.7 Alphabetic Interweaving and Division; 7.8 Greek Alphabetic Interweaving and the Copper Plaques; 7.8.1 a Geometric Subset Within the Interwoven Alphabet; 7.8.2 The nu-iota-mu Subset Within the Woven Alphabet. |
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7.9 Greek Alphabetic Interweaving Beyond the Copper Plaques. |
| Summary |
This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek language -- Alphabet.
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Greek language -- Alphabet. |
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Greek language -- History.
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Greek language. |
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History. |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Scott, David A., 1948- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Woodard, Roger D. Textualization of the Greek Alphabet. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781107028111 |
| ISBN |
9781107731905 (electronic book) |
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1107731909 (electronic book) |
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9781107723788 |
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1107723787 |
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