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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009424408

ISBN-139781009424400

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Number of Pages450 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAeolic and Aeolians : Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and Its Community of Speakers

SubjectAncient Languages (See Also Latin), Linguistics / General

Publication Year2024

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorRoger D. Woodard

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.6 in

Item Length10.3 in

Item Width7.3 in

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LCCN2024-000002

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal487.1

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Aeolian and Aeolic: 1. Archaeology, language, and an Aeolian migration; 2. The Aeolic dialects; 3. More linguistic matters: Aeolic phonology and morphology as language complexification; 4. Mycenaean dialects and Despótes; 5. Aeolian patronymics and the Mycenaean Hekwetai; 6. Mycenaean Epíkouros; Part II. Aeolian Origins in Myth: 7. Aeolian self-identity and metapontium; 8. Magnesia on the Maeander: Cretans, Aeolians, and a white-horse man; 9. Metapontium: night and day; black and white; 10. Boeotian foundation Mûthoi: from Dioscuri to Cabiri; Part III. Anatolian and Aeolian Myth and Cult: 11. Asian goddesses and bees; 12. Ephesian Artemis' 'breasts' and the Hittite Kursa; 13. Aia and Argonauts; 14. Parnassian divining bee nymphs and lot-divination; 15. Honey and Theogonies: the west face of Sipylus; 16. Bee and bird, Linear B Du-ma/Da-ma, Luvo-Hittite Dammara-, and Artemis/Artimis/Artamis; 17. Conclusion.

SynopsisAeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers - the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age., Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers - the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age, and that the ancestral Aeolic speech community can be identified with the Mycenaean peoples of Anatolia called the Ahhiyawans in Hittite records. These Bronze-Age Asian Greeks would intermarry with local Luvian peoples of western Anatolia, and the Aeolian language and identity - an identity encoded in myth-emerged from the intermixing of the two societies. Aeolian myths are central to Woodard's ground-breaking investigations presented in this volume. He demonstrates how assemblages of mythic components, what Lévi-Strauss called bricolage, enabled early Aeolians to give intellectual expression to their distinctive Greek identity. With the collapse of Bronze-Age societies in Mycenaean Greece, some of the early Aeolians of Anatolia would migrate to Europe, introducing their language and myths into Hellas.

LC Classification NumberPA551.W66 2024