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Greek Reporter2d
2,000-Year-Old Letters Show Ancient Greek Life Was Surprisingly Relatable
A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal ...
Greek Reporter2d
Greeks: The Inventors of the First True Alphabet
The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...
New York Post10y
The stories behind the letters of our alphabet
Today’s “G” derives from the Greek letter “zeta,” a letter that looks like our “I” but was pronounced as a “zzz.” Around 250 BC, Romans altered the shape of this strange letter t ...
BBC6mon
A Guide to Greek: The Greek alphabet
Since then, only the acute accent and the double dots are used instead of the many other little marks that could surround a letter As a general rule, all Greek words of more than one syllable ...
The Washington Post3y
With coronavirus variants, the world is learning the Greek alphabet, one grim letter at a time
The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the ...