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To: Fred Nerks

Diodorus wrote later (Roman times I think) so he must have been recording a then-current tradition, x number of years before such and such a king, I'll try to check that out later on (Diodorus' surviving work is pretty large if memory serves, probably is online somewhere).

"the Phoenician alphabet was used in some form in early Etruscan and Greek, and also influenced the writing systems of Hebrew and Aramaic. The only known alphabet of the Sicanians was essentially Phoenician."

This may wind up in the epigraphy and language header of the digest this week. :')


64 posted on 11/30/2006 7:05:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Diodorus online:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=diod.+9.1.1

The king of Sicily? Might have been Kokalos.

http://www.greecetravel.com/greekmyths/crete2.htm


65 posted on 11/30/2006 10:12:37 PM PST by Fred Nerks (MEDIA + ENEMY = ENEMEDIA!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Diodorus online:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=diod.+9.1.1

The king of Sicily? Might have been Kokalos.

http://www.greecetravel.com/greekmyths/crete2.htm


66 posted on 11/30/2006 10:12:42 PM PST by Fred Nerks (MEDIA + ENEMY = ENEMEDIA!)
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