Panhellenes at methone : graph in late geometric and protoarchaic methone / / edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin and Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465998403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 3-11-051467-2; 3-11-051569-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 pages)
• Collana: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, , 1868-4785 ; ; Volume 44
• Disciplina: 481.1
• Soggetti: Inscriptions, Greek; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Transport Amphorae from Methone: An Interdisciplinary Study of Production and Trade ca. 700 BCE -- The Archaeological Background of the Earliest Graffiti and Finds from Methone -- To Write and to Paint: More Early Iron Age Potters′ Marks in the Aegean -- Counting on Pots? Reflections on Numerical Notations in Early Iron Age Greece -- Texts and Amphoras in the Methone “Ypogeio” -- From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the Rise of the Greek Alphabet -- Alphabets and Dialects in the Euboean Colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia or What Could Have Happened in Methone -- Alphabet and Phonology at Methone: Beginning a Typology of Methone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis for Reading Hακεσάνδρō -- Thoughts on the Initial Aspiration of HAKEΣANΔPO -- The Impact of Late Geometric Greek Inscriptions from Methone on Understanding the Development of Early Euboean Alphabet -- Methone of Pieria: a Reassessment of Epigraphical Evidence (with a Special Attention to Pleonastic Sigma) -- Local ‘Literacies’ in the Making: Early Alphabetic Writing and Modern Literacy Theories -- Form Follows Function? Toward an Aesthetics of Early Greek Inscriptions at Methone -- Wine and the Early History of the ; Greek Alphabet -- Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume discusses the multidimensional aspects of the unique, and so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted. The 191 vessels were unearthed during excavations in ancient Methone in Pieria, the oldest colony of Greeks from Eretria in the north according to tradition. The Methone find is unique for two reasons. First, most of the pottery dates between 730 and 700 BCE, a period from which very few examples of Greek writing survives. And second, inscribed ceramics, scratched or painted, are extremely rare in Macedonia. This new evidence of inscribed pottery from Methone is invaluable for classical studies, and the papers of this volume contribute notably to current discussions about: the Greeks and the Greek language in Macedonia; the Greek colonization; the pottery trade and the early Greek transport amphoras; trade, the symposium, and other contexts for the development of writing; the ‘alphabets’ of Methone and the introduction of the alphabet in Greece; the dialect(s) of Methone in relation to the Greek dialects; early Greek writing, literacy, and literary beginnings.

The Malay Archipelago [[electronic resource] /] / Alfred Russel Wallace ; [introduction by Tony Whitten]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461378903321
• Autore: Wallace Alfred Russel <1823-1913.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore, : Periplus Editions, [2008]
• ISBN: 1-283-26222-3; 9786613262226; 1-4629-0029-1
• Edizione: [Rev. pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Collana: Periplus classics
• Altri autori (Persone): WhittenTony
• Disciplina: 915.9804
• Soggetti: Natural history - Malay Archipelago; Ethnology - Malay Archipelago; Electronic books.; Malay Archipelago Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Tenth Edition; 1 Physical Geography; 2 Singapore; 3 Malacca and Mount Ophir; 4 Borneo: The Orangutan; 5 Borneo: Journey in the Interior; 6 Borneo: The Dayaks; 7 Java; 8 Sumatra; 9 Natural History of the Indo-Malay Islands; 10 Bali and Lombok; 11 Lombok: Manners and Customs of the People; 12 Lombok: How the Rajah Took the Census; 13 Timor; 14 Natural History of the Timor Group; 15 Sulawesi; 16 Sulawesi; 17 Sulawesi; 18 Natural History of Sulawesi; 19 Banda; 20 Ambon; 21 Maluku: Ternate; 22 Halmahera; 23 Voyage to the Kayoa Islands and Bacan24 Bacan; 25 Seram, Gorong, and the Watubela Islands; 26 Buru; 27 The Natural History of Maluku; 28 Makassar to the Aru Islands in a Native Prau; 29 The Kai Islands; 30 The Aru Islands: Residence in Dobo; 31 The Aru Islands: Journey and Residence in the Interior; 32 The Aru Islands: Second Residence at Dobo; 33 The Aru Islands: Physical Geography and Aspects of Nature; 34 New Guinea: Dorey; 35 Voyage from Seram to Waigeo; 36 Waigeo; 37 Voyage from Waigeo to Ternate; 38 The Birds of Paradise; 39 The Natural History of the Papuan Islands; 40 The Races of Man in the Malay ArchipelagoBIBLIOGRAPHY & INDEX.; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Malay Archipelago is an extraordinarily accessible book written by noted British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. A century and a half after it was published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel, on par with Charles Darwin's work. Full of a wealth of detail about pre-modern life in the Indonesian archipelago, The Malay Archipelago is a fascinating look at natural selection.