Professor Mindy McAdams's lecture based on a the work of Eric Havelock

1. The Greek Legacy Presentation by Mindy McAdams Week 6.1 / MMC 2265

2. And the Pharaoh Said to Thoth: You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding ; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom ... [they will] seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant. “ ”

6. Phoenicians: Traders and sailors, they invented what is acknowledged to be the first phonetic alphabet (about 1200 B.C.E.)

7. The Phoenicians’ alphabet was adapted by the Greeks, later modified by the Etruscans, and from them, adopted by the Romans

10. Ancient Greece, 435 B.C.E.

11. Greece Today

13. Alexander the Great, 356 – 323 B.C.E.

15. Roman-held lands, 298 – 218 B.C.E.

16. Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E. – 476 C.E.

17. The Romans did not have lowercase letters, only uppercase The Arch of Titus, a marble arch on the Via Sacra in Rome, built by the Emperor Domitian in honor of his brother Titus, in 81 C.E.

18. The Greek Legacy Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida