History of Europe

ISBN: 9781330044780 出版年：2016 页码：160 Edward Augustus Freeman Forgotten Books

Cyprus. And it was from the Phoenicians that the Greeks learned the art of alphabetic writing, which the rest of Europe has learned from them. This is almost the only great gift which the Greeks got from any strangers. In everything else they wrought up the common stock of the Aryan family to greater perfection than any other people, and with less help from strangers.