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1 day ago · Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until around 400 BC, when they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today. All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the Phoenician ...
2 days ago · The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
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May 14, 2024 · Louis II, eccentric king of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886 and an admirer and patron of the composer Richard Wagner. He brought his territories into the newly founded German Empire (1871) but concerned himself only intermittently with affairs of state, preferring a life of increasingly morbid seclusion and developing a mania for extravagant building projects.
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May 13, 2024 · Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries. There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th
1 day ago · The English alphabet corresponds substantially to the Greek. This is because the Latin alphabet, from which the English alphabet was adapted c.7th century CE, was itself adapted from a variant of the Greek alphabet c.7th century BCE (five centuries before the Roman annexation of Greece). The two most easily confused letters are ξ and χ.
May 2, 2024 · Astraios, the god of dusk and twilight, wed his radiant cousin, the goddess of dawn, Eos. From their union came the Anemoi, the stars Phosphorus and Hesperus, and the virginal goddess Astrea. Pallas married Styx (yes, literally the River Styx) and begat Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia.
May 21, 2024 · Louis was the son of Ladislaus V Jagiellon and his third wife, Anne de Foix. After his father's death in 1516, the minor Louis II ascended to the throne of Hungary and Bohemia upon his father's death. Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his ...
