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THE GREEK
IONIC ALPHABET
AN ICONIC VERSION OF THE GREEK
ALPHABET USED BY THE ATHENIANS
Wiltshire, United Kingdom
designer/location unknown
403 BCE
The great civilizations of Greece, Etruria,
and Rome represented the beginning of the
Western European world. The Greeks adapted
the Phoenician alphabet and modified it into a
system of twenty-five characters. The Greek
Ionic alphabet included five vowels (A, E, I, O,
U), and written language read from left to right;
however, there were still no visual separations
between words and sentences, nor was there
any punctuation.
The Greek Ionic alphabet was the sole
source of all modern European scripts and ...