Writing and the Origins of Greek LiteratureCambridge University Press, 16.04.2007 - 228 Seiten The purpose of this book is to dispel misunderstanding about the genesis of the Homeric poems and other knotty problems in oral studies, such as the meaning of 'orality,' 'literacy,' 'tradition,' 'memorization,' and 'text.' This book is about the nature and history of writing, how it was used in the Ancient Near East, and especially in Greece, and its relationship to Homer. It suggests that a Semite invented the Greek alphabet, heir to an ancient bilingual Eastern tradition of taking down poetry by dictation. |
Inhalt
building models like a wigwam I | 1 |
Text | 4 |
Orality and genre II | 11 |
Myth | 18 |
Literacy བ | 21 |
Tradition | 26 |
Memorization | 29 |
West and the Eastern origins of Greek tradition | 33 |
the Chinese enigma | 72 |
Oral and written in the land between the rivers | 80 |
Oral and written in the Valley of the Nile 886 | 89 |
The West Semitic revolution | 99 |
The invention of the Greek alphabet and the end of multiliteralism | 112 |
Where does Homer fit in the alphabetic revolution? | 125 |
stories from pots | 146 |
early Greek literature in context | 188 |
Cultural transmission by literate means in the Near East | 48 |
general | 56 |
semasiography and logosyllabography | 62 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Akkadian ancient aoidic aoidoi appears Apulian pot archaic Greek artistic Assyrian bilingual Bronze Age Burkert Chinese writing classical complex composed composition culture cuneiform dictated text dolphin early East Eastern Egypt Egyptian Egyptian hieroglyphic eighth century BC epic Eretria Euboea example figure folding tablet genre Gilgamesh gods graphemes Greece Greek alphabet Greek literature Greek myths Heracles hero Herodotus Hesiod hexametric hieroglyphic historical Hittite Homeric poems human hymn Iliad images inscription invented Iron Age Ishum king language learned lexigraphic lion literate logograms logosyllabic Lord means memorized Mesopotamian millennium modern mythic narrative Neoptolemus never Ninurta Odyssey oral poet oral song oral tradition origin papyrus parallel Parry Parry/Lord performance Phoenician phonetic phonic poetic poetry Ramses recorded representation rhapsodes scribal scribes script semantic serpent signs similar singer speech story Sumerian symbols temple tomb transmission Ugaritic Vansina verse West Semitic West Semitic writing words written text