| ".... The Greeks established the alphabet in the heart of Western civilisation. It is an absolute match that the word ALPHABET. a word formed from the frst two letters Alpha and Beta, are Greek..."
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| Oliver Taplin - Professor of Greek at Oxford "The Greek Fire" Published by Kastanioti - Translated by E Patrikiou | |
| "Knossos was worldly with the true meaning of the word. The civilisation which it represents disappeared I500 years before the coming of our Saviour, but bestowed on the Western world the most magnificent inheritance known to man until now - the ALPHABET".
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| Henry Miller "The Colossos of Maroussi"
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| "The classical language of the Greeks is one of the most significant sources which influenced our everyday language..... When one refers to the alphabet one pronounces exactly the two Greek letters Alpha and Beta....a little later , when you began to speak of ARITHMETIC. | |
| you use almost the Greek word Arithmos.. "
THE NEW WEBSTER DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. EDITION GROLIER. N.YORK.
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| " we do not have brothers on earth. The only thing which connects us to complete humanity are the magic symbols of the Greek language. These are international certificates and our passport .. . ."
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Dionysios Zakynthinos
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| " The Greek language....the fullest in richness of meaning, the most flexible in poetic expression, the richest in vocabulary, the most ancient of the European languages and the phonetics of which goes back to the mythical origins of archetypal meaning.. "
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Harris Lampides.
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| .... The first "Library" of Athens was created by Peisistratos in the 6th century B.C. ...the Library of Alexandria: the first data bank of humanity....
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| Federico Sancredo | |
| Aristotle tried in his "Logic" to analyse the forms of language.... He created practically the basis for scientific language.
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| V. Haizenberg "Nature and Philosophy " KALVOS Press
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| "Latin as a scholarly language is a repetition of Greek, Cicero conveys to Latin the Greek rhetoric and philosophy. Christianity, following on, contributed to the influence of Greek on Latin. The Latin vocabulary is a translation of the corresponding Greek and for this reason Latin did not put Greek aside in the East because the imitation did not have enough charm to displace the original.
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| MEILLET, French Linguist
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