In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon c

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