Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

ISBN: 9780521589079 出版年：1991 页码：310 Barry B Powell Cambridge University Press

Foreword: why was the Greek alphabet invented? 1. Review of criticism: what we know about the origin of the Greek alphabet 2. Argument from the history of writing: how writing worked before the Greek alphabet 3. Argument from the material remains: Greek inscriptions from the beginning to c. 650 BC 4. Argument from coincidence: dating Greece's earliest poet 5. Conclusions from probability: how the Iliad and the Odyssey were written down Appendix I: Gelb's theory of the syllabic nature of West Semitic writing Appendix II: Homeric references in poets of the seventh century.