The greek alphabet has been used since 900 BC to write the Greek Language. It is the first writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant and the oldest alphabetic …

The Greek alphabet initially adopted all 22 letters of the Phoenician alphabet, some of them in different ways, while new letters were also introduced. Greek was originally written from right …

Greek Numbers The Ancient Greeks used letters to represent numbers and they could make very complex calculations in this way. The numbers 1, 2, 3, … had not yet been invented, which …

Greek literature is particularly rich and extends over almost three millennia. Its first recorded works, which are also the first in Western culture, are the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod …

A is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and it derives from the Egyptian hieroglyphic for a horned ox's head, by way of the semitic "aleph", which today doesn't look at all ox-like.

His son, Alexander the Great, managed to decimate the troops of Darius III and create a glorious Greek Empire that spread all the way to India. The Hellenistic period started in 323 BC, the …

Greek Letter Eta (Ήτα - Η) In Semitic "η" a consonant, but the Greeks used it as their "long a" sound. On the continent, e often takes what we call the "long a" sound. The letter moved into …

The Greek government or cabinet of Greece is officially called the Ministerial Council. It is the decision – making body of the Hellenic Republic, composed of the Prime Minister and the …

Greek Letter Beta (Βήτα - Β) "Beta" is supposed to be the picture of a house, with two stories. "Beta" has the same ancestors with "Beth", Hebrew for "house", given to many Jewish …

After that, no other Greek city openly defied Alexander again. In 334 BC, Alexander started his march against the Persians, invading from Hellespont. Although the Macedonian army was …