Stephen Colvin

A Brief History of Ancient Greek

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Brief History of Ancient Greek accessibly depicts the social history of this ancient language from its Indo-European roots to the present day.

Explains key relationships between the language and literature of the Classical period (500 - 300 BC)
Provides a social history of the language which transliterates and translates all Greek as appropriate, and is therefore accessible 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 and political context
Reflects the latest thinking on subjects such as Koiné Greek and the relationship between literary and vernacular Greek

Produktdetails

• Wiley Brief Histories of the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781405149259
• ISBN-10: 1405149256
• Artikelnr.: 39178796

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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