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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2024

Roger D. Woodard
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University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age, and that the ancestral Aeolic speech community can be identified with the Mycenaean peoples of Anatolia called the Ahhiyawans in Hittite records. These Bronze-Age Asian Greeks would intermarry with local Luvian peoples of western Anatolia, and the Aeolian language and identity – an identity encoded in myth – emerged from the intermixing of the two societies.

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Aeolic and Aeolians
Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers
, pp. 1 - 4
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Introduction
  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book: Aeolic and Aeolians
  • Online publication: 21 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009424370.001
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  • Introduction
  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book: Aeolic and Aeolians
  • Online publication: 21 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009424370.001
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  • Introduction
  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book: Aeolic and Aeolians
  • Online publication: 21 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009424370.001
Available formats
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