Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: aksum, egypt, mesopotamia, languages, ancient
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521684978
ISBN-13: 9780521684972

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical contex

Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: greek, alphabet, continuity, ancient, literacy, origin, interpretation, writing, knossos, homer, linguistic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-06-12
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0195105206
ISBN-13: 9780195105209

In this book, Woodard examines the origin of the Greek alphabet. Deviating from previous accounts, he places the advent of the alphabet at a point within an unbroken continuum of Greek literacy beginning in the Mycenean era. Woodard argues that the creators of the Greek alphabet, or, more accurately the adapters of the Phoenician consonantal script, were scribes accustomed to writing Greek with the syllabic script of Cyprus. Certain characteristic features of Cypriot script, gestures which arose from the idiosyncratic Cypriot strategy for representing consonant sequence and from the intersecti

Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: americas, asia, languages, ancient
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521684943
ISBN-13: 9780521684941

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the Americas, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The

Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: minor, asia, languages, ancient
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 052168496X
ISBN-13: 9780521684965

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brin

Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: arabia, palestine, syria, languages, ancient
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0521684986
ISBN-13: 9780521684989

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context.

Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: roman, cult, traditions, vedic, space, european, sacred, indo
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0252029887
ISBN-13: 9780252029882

In "Indo-European Sacred Space", Roger D. Woodard provides a careful examination of the sacred spaces of ancient Rome, finding them remarkably consistent with older Indo-European religious practices as described in the Vedas of ancient India. Employing and expanding on the fundamental methods of Emile Benveniste, as well as Georges Dumezil’s tripartite analysis of Proto-Indo-European society, Woodard clarifies not only the spatial dynamics of the archaic Roman cult but, stemming from that, an unexpected clarification of several obscure issues in the study of Roman religion.Looking closel

Authors:Ovid, Anthony J. Boyle, Roger D. Woodard,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, fasti
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140446907
ISBN-13: 9780140446906

Fasti is both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories. Using the first six months of the Roman religious calendar as a frame, Ovid weaves Greek and Roman history and mythology, astronomical observations and political tidbits into a lively tapestry shot through with uncomfortable political echoes. Augustus tried to control his subjects by imposing his own accounts of history and an annual cycle of festivals on them, but Ovid brilliantly debunks Augustus’s versions with his own reflections on patriotism, militarism, and public virtue with earthy images of sensual pleasu