Greek Reporter

The Lost Letters of the Greek Alphabet

The modern Greek alphabet is missing some of the letters used in ancient times. What are these missing letters, and what happened to them?
Greek Reporter

The Origin of the Greek Alphabet: Was Herodotus Right or Wrong?

The early Greek alphabet was painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 ...
The Guardian

Why is the alphabet in the order it is? Why can't the letter "E" come first, for example?

"E" is only the most common letter of the alphabet in English and a few other languages. The alphabet we use is based on the Irish alphabet, which comes from the Latin, this in turn having the Greek ...
Indiatimes

Why is the alphabet written in a specific order?

The word alphabet comes from alpha and beta, the first two words in the Greek alphabet. Why is the alphabet written in a specific order? The alphabet has often been described as an arbitrary ...