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3 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.
3 days ago · Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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2 days ago · Generally, the history of Greece is divided into the following periods: Paleolithic Greece , starting c. 3.3 million years ago and ending in 20000 BC. Significant geomorphological and climatic changes occurred in the modern Greek area which were definitive for the development of fauna and flora and the survival of Homo sapiens in the region.
Mar 17, 2024 · In 399 BC, the ancient Greek philosopher was formally accused of impiety to the gods of Athens and of corrupting youth. The accusations were initiated by a poet named Meletus who asked for the death penalty. Socrates was tried by a jury of hundreds and found guilty.
Mar 18, 2024 · By Tasos Kokkinidis. March 18, 2024. Tradition dictates that Athenians go to Filopapou Hill to fly kites on Clean Monday. Credit: Huhu Uet /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 3.0. Kathara Deftera, or “Clean Monday”—the beginning of Lent among Orthodox Christians—is the day Greeks fly kites (which are symbolic of the Resurrection) and go on picnics outdoors.
Mar 12, 2024 · Gēorgios N. Hatzidakis (born Nov. 12, 1848, Mírthio, Crete, Ottoman Empire [now in Greece]—died June 26, 1941, Athens, Greece) was the first and most important linguist of modern Greece, noted for his studies of ancient, medieval, and modern Greek and for his initiation of the Historical Lexicon of the Greek Language.
Mar 21, 2024 · Philosophy, democracy and law in ancient Greece. The ancient Greek world had no single system of law; individual states instead formed their own political and legal systems, although these were arguably based largely on the same general principles. The most widely-known Greek judicial system is that of 4 th century classical Athens ...