拉丁字母的历史(History of the Latin alphabet) 世界上现在最通用的字母就是拉丁字母(Latin alphabet),也就是英语的那26个字母ABC...。它们是语言的基础,也是信息化社会的基础。 下面,我简单回顾一下,拉丁字母的来历。 欧洲文明的基础是希腊文明,它使用的字母叫做希腊字母(Greek alphabet),也就是αβγ...那一...
相比之下,古代关于荷马其人和荷马史诗的诸多争论不曾撼动《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》的经典地位以及荷马的作者身份,见Davison, “The Homeric Question”, pp. 238-242。 [3]L. H. Jeffery, The Local s of Archaic Greece: A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its Development from the Eighth...
The answer should be no to many people, including myself. ‘There are thousands of Greek letters’ pronunciations among the thousands of reading population’, which is particularly remarkable in today's China. Therefore, before going back to the more ancient history of the Greek alphabet, we m...
The importance of the Greeks in the history of alphabetic writing is paramount. All alphabets used in Europe today stand in direct or indirect relation to the ancient Greek. Several other alphabets—some long out of u...
The Romans admired both Etruscan and Greek culture, and they shamelessly copied both of them. 罗马人既崇拜伊特鲁里亚文化,也崇拜希腊文化,于是他们厚着脸皮地照搬这两种文化。 For example, the Romans copied the idea of the Alphabet from the Etruscans, just as the Etruscans had copied it from the...
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/global-alphabet-5304 https://www.okhistory.org/historycenter/federalreserve/owenbio.html https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/robert-l-owen-7698 https://core.ac.uk/reader/6935020 Alphabets Other writing systems ...
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It holds the distinction for being the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history. ...
R. Millard, The Canaanite Linear Alphabet and its Passage to the Greeks, Kadmos 15, 1976, 130-143; J. Naveh, The Early History of the Alphabet, Leiden 1982. 2 This view was put forward on the basis of careful arguments by L. H. Jeffery in 1961 (The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece...
The early Greeks called the pentagram the Pentalpha. “Pent” for the number five and “Alpha” being the first letter of the Greek alphabet. The Pythagoreans considered its geometric qualities to be symbolic, both mathematically and metaphysically, of absolute perfection. ...
Greeks adapted Phoenician writing to work with their language, turning consonants they couldn't pronounce into vowels. The ancient Etruscans borrowed this Greek alphabet for their language, which was in turn transformed by the Romans into the world-famous Latin script that's used to write languages...