Konstantinos Plevris O Diwgmos Twn Aristwn (greek Language)

The History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the 3rd Century AD

In this companion volume to his earlier work, The Latin Language, Leonard R. Palmer now provides a history of The Greek Language, including an overview of the coming of the Greeks, the Linear B. Tablets, the Greek dialects, genres (in poetry and prose), and a comparative-historical grammar. Palmer discusses the transformation of the Greek language from its Indo-European roots, through the Bronze and Dark Ages, to the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods and beyond. Major authors and genres are discussed throughout the history, including essays on Homer, Melic poetry, tragedy, Herodotus and Thucydides.

The Dictionary of the Ancient Greek Language is being released in a time, beginning of the third millenium, at which the Western society and peoples, inclusive of the Greeks, are under the rule of material and hedonistic values.