Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1996

Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe

An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World

Edited by: Harald Haarmann

Volume 124 in the series Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110869057

Contents

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Preface Harald Haarmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
1. Iconography, symbolism and writing at the dawn of civilization – Old Europe from the seventh to the fourth millennia B.C. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. The organizing principles of Old European writing – Motivated and arbitrary symbols and their affinity with the mythical symbolism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Writing from Old Europe to ancient Crete – A case of cultural continuity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. Literacy in ancient Crete – On the social functions of linear and hieroglyphic writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. The Cretan legacy in the East: Writing systems in the multilingual society of ancient Cyprus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. The spread of European writing beyond ancient Cyprus – The influence of Aegean and Cypriot literacy in Asia Minor and the Near East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. On the three ways of writing the oldest literary language in the world: Greek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8. The impact of Aegean culture on the western periphery – The case of the Lipari script and the role of Etruscan writing in Italy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Conclusion: Giving profile to a new paradigm for research into antiquity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Illustrations, figures, tables and maps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Main content: 207
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs. tabs. and maps
Keywords: Altertum; Schriftlichkeit

eBook

Published: February 13, 2012
ISBN: 9783110869057

Hardcover

Published: November 15, 1995
ISBN: 9783110146516