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Climbing Olympus: Explanatory Notes for the Blog Categories
Welcome to my blog! To figure out what’s here, you need to get acquainted with the…
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A Linguistic Transit: From Greeks to Romans
You will recall that I once quoted Horace on the subject of Greek culture taking
Tyrian Purple and Dido’s Stratagem
Once upon a time, then, there were the Phoenicians, busily making the Mediterranean their own.
The Twenty-Two Letters That Changed the World
As promised, the particulars of the Phoenician alphabet. It had twenty-two letters. They wrote from
The Woodcutters’ Tongue and the First Alphabet
What language did the Phoenicians speak? Phoenician, of course. In terms of linguistic classification, it
From Abraham to the Land of Purple
As you will have gathered, we have been to Tunisia. The question may well have
