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Ancient Greek writing and today's writing - Essay Example

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It’s less than presumptuous to say that there is no other civilization than that of ancient Greece that has a greater influence in the shaping of Western civilization as we know and experience it today. The weight that it has brought encompasses a vast number of things from…
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The origins are blurry except for signs of Prepalatial Period influences. It does not contain definite developments between periods found in the Aegean. Original scripts are found in ‘First Palace Period Crete’ and are with preceding documents in written form. This is not an uncommon development in Crete due to their necessity to record the commodities they were able to store, this idea came to be from the East but it does not characterize a completely imitative demonstration (Dickinson, p.193) Writing in Crete shows no sign of having its origins from the Eastern civilizations which had early shows of writing in their culture.

It is regarded as in inherent invention in the local level. A difference among the civilizations manifest itself among the painted pots wherein theirs are sun-dried compared to the baked variety common to the Near East. Other materials of course included the papyrus also known as parchments which are perishable materials, a variety in made. This puts into question the usage and the contents of the materials. The artifacts are contained what are perceived as records regarding commodities and other unclear matters that the era imposed.

The hieroglyphics is known to be of north Crete particularly Mallia (Dickinson p.193-194). Found in Phylakopi and Ayia Irini are tablets in fragments and also in Akrotiri, Kastri and Ayios Stephano. This is influential of the scripts found in Cyprus. The Third Palace Period seems to be a developed version of those found at Knossos. Scribes suggests 66 in Knossos and 33 at Pylos working but are of ‘secondary hands’ which is quite rare that may have been records and reports of officials organized by scribes of the royalty (Dickinson, p.195-197). The analogous relationship between literary arts and non-literary arts concern literary intentions.

Though Crete civilization’s

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