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  • A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné

    A Historical Greek Reader by Colvin, Stephen;

    Mycenaean to the Koiné

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 15 November 2007

    • ISBN 9780199226603
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages328 pages
    • Size 216x138x18 mm
    • Weight 437 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Designed to be used as a textbook in university courses (either upper-level undergraduate or postgraduate), A Historical Greek Reader will also serve as a reference tool for researchers. It provides an introduction to the history of the ancient Greek language, and to Indo-European and historical linguistics in general.

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    Long description:

    A Historical Greek Reader provides an introduction to the history of the ancient Greek language by means of a series of texts with linguistic commentary, cross-referenced to each other and to a reference grammar at the front. It offers a selection of epigraphic and literary texts from the Mycenaean period (roughly the fourteenth century BC) to the koiné (the latest text dates to the second century AD), and includes a wide range of Greek dialect texts. The epigraphic section balances a number of well-known inscriptions with recent discoveries that may not be easily available elsewhere; a selection of literary texts traces major developments in the language of Greek poetry and literary prose. The book finishes with an account of the linguistic and sociolinguistic background of koiné Greek. The commentary assumes no prior knowledge of Greek historical linguistics, but provides a basic amount of up-to-date bibliography so that advanced students and others can pursue linguistic issues at greater depth where necessary.

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    Table of Contents:

    I. Introduction
    Greek and Indo-European
    Mycenaean Greek
    The alphabetic period
    Dialect diversity: the eighth to the fourth centuries BC
    Literary languages
    Post-classical prose: the koine
    II. Texts with translation and commentary
    Mycenaean
    Greek dialect inscriptions
    Greek literary texts

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