Greek Literature
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The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once
commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can
be made regarding as a whole.
Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Greeks created a
literature of such brilliance that it has ....
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.... Its history can be
followed from the 14th century BC to the present. Its literature, therefore,
covers a longer period of time than that of any other Indo-European language .
Scholars have determined that the Greek alphabet was derived from the
Phoenician alphabet. During the period from the 8th to the 5th century BC, local
differences caused the forms of letters to vary from one city-state to another
within Greece. From the 4th century BC on, however, the alphabet became uniform
throughou ....
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