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Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet Reprint Edition
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- ISBN-10052158907X
- ISBN-13978-0521589079
- EditionReprint
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateOctober 28, 1996
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.77 x 9 inches
- Print length308 pages
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'[This] is an important book, and will be widely read by students of writing in other cultures as well as by Homerists, linguists, historians and archaeologists of early Greece.' Classical Philology
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (October 28, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 308 pages
- ISBN-10 : 052158907X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0521589079
- Item Weight : 1.01 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.77 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,344,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #448 in Ancient History (Books)
- #526 in Linguistics (Books)
- #898 in Alphabet Reference
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Barry B. Powell was born in Sacramento, CA, in 1942. He studied at Berkeley and Harvard and taught for 34 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Bascom-Halls Professor of Classics Emeritus. He is celebrated for his argument tying the creation of the Greek alphabet to the recording of the Homeric Poems, but is also well known for his textbooks on Greek myth and Greek history and his work on the history of writing. He has published translations of the ILIAD, the ODYSSEY, the AENEID, and the poems of HESIOD. He has published original poetry, many fictional works, including an academic mystery A LAND OF SLAVES, a memoir RAMSES REBORN, and the illustrated TALES OF THE TROJAN WAR.
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La lástima que el libro en versión tapa blanda no aparezca los colores que hace referencia el texto.