Archaic Greek alphabetsLocal variants of the ancient Greek alphabetHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationMany local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until around 400 BC, when they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today.ArchinusArchinus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχῖνος) was an Athenian democratic politician who wielded substantial influence between the restoration of democracy in 403 BC and the beginning of the Corinthian War in 395 BC. In the early days of the restored democracy, he acted to weaken the oligarchic exiles at Eleusis by ending the period during which citizens could register to emigrate to Eleusis before its announced ending date.
Eponymous archonThe eponymous archon (anc. Gk. ἐπώνυμος ἄρχων, romanized epōnymos archōn) was the chief magistrate in various ancient Greek city states, who gave his name to the year in which he held office, much like Roman consuls. "Archon" (ἄρχων, pl.
Psi (Greek)HistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationPsi (uppercase Ψ, lowercase ψ or 𝛙; Greek: ψιpsi) is the twenty-third and penultimate letter of the Greek alphabet and is associated with a numeric value of 700.
HetaHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationHeta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter eta (Η) and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.
PhiHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationPhi ( ; uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ; Ancient Greek: ϕεῖpheî; Modern Greek: φιfi) is the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet.OmegaOmega (US: , UK: ; uppercase Ω, lowercase ω) is the twenty-fourth and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The name of the letter was originally ὦ (ō̂ [ɔ̂ː]), but it was later changed to ὦ μέγα (ō̂ méga 'big o') to distinguish it from omicron ⟨ο⟩, whose name means 'small o', as both letters had come to be pronounced [o]. In modern Greek, its name has fused into ωμέγα (oméga).
TheopompusTheopompus (Ancient Greek: Θεόπομπος, Theópompos; c. 380 BCE – c. 315 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian and rhetorician student of Isocrates. BiographyEarly life and educationTheopompus was born on the Aegean island of Chios in 378 or 377 BCE. In his early youth, he spent time at Athens, with his father Damasistratus, who had been exiled for his Laconian sympathies.
AthensAthens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU).History of the Greek alphabetThe history of the Greek alphabet began with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues to the present day. The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age, centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age collapse and Greek Dark Age. The Phoenician alphabet was consistently explicit about consonants.
Ancient GreekAncient Greek (Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ [hellɛːnikɛ̌ː]) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (c. 1400 – c. 1200 BC), Dark Ages (c. 1200 – c. 800 BC), the Archaic or Homeric period (c. 800 – c. 500 BC), and the Classical period (c. 500 – c. 300 BC).
EtaHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationEta ( ; uppercase Η, lowercase η; Ancient Greek: ἦταē̂ta or Greek: ήταita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, .*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.