HUMA 1100 Lecture : Worlds of Ancient Greece and Rome Lecture 1.docx
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Worlds of ancient greece and rome lecture 1. Language: classical or ancient greek was a highly inflected language, and the writing, as. Herodotus states, was adapted from the alphabet of the phoenicians. There were western and eastern alphabet consisting of 24 letters was employed in classical greek: greek writing was originally semitic, in the sense that is was written from right to left. Old monuments further reveal the existence of a type of writing known as boustrophedon (bous-oxen and strepho-i am turning), which can be translated as turning like oxen while ploughing . It was a form of writing that consisted of having one line written from right to left and the next line from left to right. The usual writing form left to right started after about 500 b. c. Dialect: according to epigraphy, there were several versions or dialects of the ancient. This dialect became the standard literary language of ancient greece.
