Re: Kassi Script
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 13, 2004, 4:44 |
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On Saturday, June 12, 2004, at 12:14 , Barbara Barrett wrote:
> Soory bout this; it got shuffled and I didn't notice till now. BB
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>> IIRC the Greeks had it both ways - attributing letters both to the god
>> Hermes/Thoth and to an historical personage who's name escapes me for the
>> moment ;-).
Kadmos, king of Thebes (i.e. the Thebes in Boiotia, Grrece, not the Thebes
in Egypt) - he was credited with introducing Phoenician letters to Greece.
Ray
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