Barry Β Powell

Biographic Data

ID4863891
NAMEBarry Β Powell
GIVEN NAMESBarry Β
FAMILY NAMEPowell
SIGNATUREPOWELL B Β
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS92
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Oral Tradition

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Playing Hesiod

    Barry B Powell, Barry Β PowellARTICLEMnemosyne2016

  • Crete

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Chalcis (1)

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Inscriptions

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Egypt and Homer

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Thebes, Egyptian

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Pithekoussai

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Near East and Homer

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Pharos

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Rhadamanthys

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Euboea

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Alphabet

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Eretria

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Orientalizing Period

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Nestor's Cup

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Writing, in Homer

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellCHAPTER2011

  • Homer and Writing

    Barry Β Powell, Barry PowellCHAPTERA New Companion to Homer1997

    Central to the genesis of the Homeric poems is the question of writing. The poems exist in writing, but they emerge from an illiterate age and were generated through a technique of composition which does not require writing, which is even hostile to it. This chapter brings prejudgments to the study of writing and badly need a theory of the history of writing to sort out the complex data. The disadvantage of semasiography is that many forms of tho…

  • Classical Myth

    Henry V Bender, Barry B Powell et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1997

  • A New Companion to Homer

    Ivan Morris, Ian Morris et al.BOOKA New Companion to Homer1997Cited by: 81

    Now available in paperback for the very first time, this classic volume remains the standard handbook for Homer studies

  • Ancient Greek Studies and Folkloristics

    John Miles Foley, Timothy Gantz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1994

  • Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet.

    William C West, Barry B Powell et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1992

  • Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

    Scott Goins, Barry B Powell et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Cadmean Letters

    Haruo Konishi, Cadmean et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1992

  • Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

    Open AccessBarry B Powell, Barry Β PowellBOOKHomer and the Origin of the Greek…1991

    Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the use of alphabetic writing. The author reaches the conclusion that a single man, perhaps from the island of Euboea, invented the Greek alphabet specifically in order to record the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.