Language And Cosmos In Greece And Mesopotamia
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Author | : Jacobo Myerston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2023-04-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009289950 |
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Theorizing about language and its place in the world began long before Plato and Aristotle. In this book, Jacobo Myerston traces the trajectories of various proto-linguistic traditions that circulated between Greece and Mesopotamia before the institutionalization of Greek philosophy. By following the threads of transcultural conversations, the author shows the impact of Mesopotamian semantics and hermeneutics on early Greek thinkers. He reconstructs the Greek appropriation of Mesopotamian semantics while arguing that, despite geographical distance and cultural constraints, the Greeks adopted and transformed Babylonian cosmological and linguistic concepts in a process leading to new discoveries. This book covers conceptions of signification present in cuneiform word lists, esoteric syllabaries, commentaries, literary texts like Enuma elish, Gilgamesh, Hesiod's Theogony, and the Homeric Hymns as well as the philosophical commentary preserved in the Derveni papyrus.
Author | : Martin Geldart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) |
ISBN | : |
Download The Modern Greek Language in Its Relation to Ancient Greek Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Wendy Moleas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Greek language |
ISBN | : |
Download The Development of the Greek Language Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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Author | : Rita Watson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2011-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004202315 |
Download Writing Science before the Greeks Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Babylonian astronomical series MUL.APIN represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian astronomy. This volume presents a new analysis of MUL.APIN from the perspective of modern cognitive science and explores the role of writing in the evolution of scientific thought.
Author | : Deborah Levine Gera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 9780199256167 |
Download Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language, and Civilization Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles that have intrigued people for many centuries. This book explores Greek ideas on the beginnings of language, and the links between speech and civilization. It is a study of ancient Greek views on the nature of the world's first society and first language, the source of language, the development of civilization and speech, and the relation between people's level of civilization and the kind of language they use." "Discussions of later Western reflections on the origin and development of language and society, particularly during the Enlightenment, feature in the book, along with brief surveys of recent research on glottogenesis, the acquisition of language, and the beginnings of civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : James Clackson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316297802 |
Download Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.
Author | : Margaret Alexiou |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Byzantine literature |
ISBN | : 9780801433016 |
Download After Antiquity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient, medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In her new, eagerly awaited book, Alexiou looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor. Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle. She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the songs of love and marriage.In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin sons.
Author | : Phillip Sidney Horky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108423647 |
Download Cosmos in the Ancient World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.
Author | : Roger D. Woodard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2008-04-10 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521684978 |
Download The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
Author | : Olaf Almqvist |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350221880 |
Download Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies also say a great deal more. Indeed, the majority of cosmologies, ancient and modern, explore not simply how the world was made but how humans relate to their surrounding environment and the often thin line which separates humans from gods and animals. Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology, and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod's Theogony; the Orphic Derveni Theogony; and Protagoras' creation myth in Plato's eponymous dialogue. Although all three cosmologies are part of a single mythic tradition and feature a number of similar events and characters, Olaf Almqvist argues they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on what it is to be human. Engaging closely with the ontological turn in anthropology and in particular with the work of Philippe Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological assumptions – analogism, pantheism, and naturalism – found in early Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological assumptions result in contrasting attitudes to rituals such as prayer and sacrifice.