A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.

Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology -

The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordi

How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be fo

This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields