Greek Scripts: An illustrated introduction
edited by Pat Easterling and Carol Handley.

Greek of some form has been written for over 3000 years, painted or scratched on to pottery, cut into stone, written on papyrus, parchment and paper, and eventually printed, first by traditional methods and now by computer technology. Script styles, letter forms, symbols and abbreviations vary according to where and when they were used, and for what purposes- to identify the contents of an amphora or the coinage of a despot, to record the deeds of an emperor or condemn an enemy, to provide Christianity with its liturgical texts, or students of ancient literature with their text-books. This broad range is dealt with in this volume by a group of Cambridge scholars, each expert in a particular area- epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics, palaeography- in order to offer an accessible introduction to the subject to anyone with an interest in Greek.

Contents:

• The earliest writers of Greek JOHN KILLEN
• The Greek of inscriptions JOYCE REYNOLDS
• Pots and potsherds HAROLD B. MATTINGLY
• From Phanes to Pisanello: 2000 years of numismatic Greek T. R. VOLK
• Scribes and scholars: Greek papyri and the survival of literature ERIC HANDLEY
• Byzantium and the revival of learning PAT EASTERLING
• From script to print E. J. KENNEY

© 2001 Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies ISBN: 0-902984-17-9

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