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- From: rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert)
- Subject: Re: Powell on Greek Alphabet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.143512.16452@news.vanderbilt.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:35:12 GMT
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- In article <ada612.721380275@huxley> ada612@huxley.anu.edu.au (Avery D Andrews) writes:
- >Does anyone have an informed option about B. Powell (1991),
- >_Homer and the origin of the Greek alphabet_, CUP? The thesis
- >of the book is that the Greek alphabet was devised for the specific
- >purpose of recording Homer. The argument seems sensible on a first
- >pass, tho I'm too ignorant of the relevant factual material to make
- >a serious evaluation of it (& I'm struck by Powell's apparently
- >automatic assumption that the adapter/scribe was male).
- >
- >Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
- >
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- Just curious, but what argument or arguments does Powell make
- regarding digamma? It's needed at some spots for scansion, and yet
- it isn't written.
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- John Rickert I swore off reality
- rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu years ago, and I haven't
- touched it since.
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