CAS CL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ancient Greek, Lexical Item, Greek Drachma
20 Mar 2015
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Lecture 2: what classicists do (sources and methods) Sources of information: greek texts ( written ) inscriptions (8th c. bc onwards) Medieval manuscripts (9th c. ce onwards: greek art ( visual ) Francois vase has over 200 mythological figures on it. Example: athenian coin (drachma) with the owl, bird of athena, the goddess of wisdom and the saint protector of athens: important historical information. Most promising: linguistic: greeks are proud & aware of their language, barbarian someone who doesn"t know greek and says br-br-br , at all periods of history, greece used the ancient greek language. History of a language language relationship languages are related to one another when they descend from a single, original language, called proto-language . E. g. romance languages descended from a late form of latin: comparative method. Roman military units were stationed across europe; when (western) Roman empire dissolved, individual vernaculars started emerge in. Establishing relationships starts w/ looking for potential cognates.
