A Linguistic Transit: From Greeks to Romans
You will recall that I once quoted Horace on the subject of Greek culture taking…
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Tyrian Purple and Dido’s Stratagem
Once upon a time, then, there were the Phoenicians, busily making the Mediterranean their own….
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The Twenty-Two Letters That Changed the World
As promised, the particulars of the Phoenician alphabet. It had twenty-two letters. They wrote from…
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The Woodcutters’ Tongue and the First Alphabet
What language did the Phoenicians speak? Phoenician, of course. In terms of linguistic classification, it…
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From Abraham to the Land of Purple
As you will have gathered, we have been to Tunisia. The question may well have…
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A Salon in the Medina
We thought we were going to the city museum, and found ourselves at a selling…
