CLST 102 Chapter 8: TEST 4 (got A+ in course)
12 Jan 2016
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Earliest records of stories come fro boiotian poet hesiod and the homeric. Same is true for songs which are written by arkhilokhos, semonides or. Greeks invented the first fully phonetic alphabet with symbols for vowels as. Used to be written right to left but was changed left to right (boustrophedon) Greeks had their own writing system by 800-750. In 403, they adopted alphabet that was used in miletos. Earliest greek writing was in verse because it was easy to memorize and remember. Museum of alexandria is where the ptolemies produced the most reliable text copy. What the alexandrians didn"t copy/edit, it did not survive o. Collapse of roman empire left the greek heritage on thread but soon after, Biggest lost is greek lyric poetry because chrurch did not like and therefore was not copied. What us here today is from desert sands. Sappho o songs are accompanied by a lyre.
