Homer And The Origin Of The Greek Alphabet

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What caused the invention of the Greek alphabet? Who did it, and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the use of alphabetic writing

• Homer And The Origin Of The Greek Alphabet available on August 27 2018 from Indigo for 54.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521589079 ξ1 registered August 27 2018
  
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The author declares his conclusion to be a possibly surprising one--that a single man, perhaps from the island of Euboea, invented the Greek alphabet specifically in order to record the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.

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