The Greek Language

About this book

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.