This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.

This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.

The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as

Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversit