{"product_id":"aeolic-and-aeolians-origins-of-an-ancient-greek-language-and-its-community-of-speakers-hardback-9781009424400","title":"Aeolic and Aeolians; Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers (Hardback) 9781009424400","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAeolic and Aeolians\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrigins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoger D. Woodard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009424400, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e648 pages\u003cbr\u003e26.2 x 18.5 x 4 cm, 1.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAeolic 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Aeolian and Aeolic: 1. Archaeology, language, and an Aeolian migration\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Aeolic dialects\u003cbr\u003e 3. More linguistic matters: Aeolic phonology and morphology as language complexification\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mycenaean dialects and Despótēs\u003cbr\u003e 5. Aeolian patronymics and the Mycenaean Hekwetai\u003cbr\u003e 6. Mycenaean Epíkouros\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Aeolian Origins in Myth: 7. Aeolian self-identity and metapontium\u003cbr\u003e 8. Magnesia on the Maeander: Cretans, Aeolians, and a white-horse man\u003cbr\u003e 9. Metapontium: night and day\u003cbr\u003e black and white\u003cbr\u003e 10. Boeotian foundation Mûthoi: from Dioscuri to Cabiri\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Anatolian and Aeolian Myth and Cult: 11. Asian goddesses and bees\u003cbr\u003e 12. Ephesian Artemis' 'breasts' and the Hittite Kurša\u003cbr\u003e 13. Aia and Argonauts\u003cbr\u003e 14. Parnassian divining bee nymphs and lot-divination\u003cbr\u003e 15. Honey and Theogonies: the west face of Sipylus\u003cbr\u003e 16. Bee and bird, Linear B Du-ma\/Da-ma, Luvo-Hittite Dammara-, and Artemis\/Artimis\/Artamis\u003cbr\u003e 17. Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Classical history \/ classical civilisation [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classical history \/ classical civilisation\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classical%20history%20\/%20classical%20civilisation%20%5BHBLA1%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52507359510808,"sku":"9781009424400","price":96.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009424400i.jpg?v=1786445017","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aeolic-and-aeolians-origins-of-an-ancient-greek-language-and-its-community-of-speakers-hardback-9781009424400","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}