AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Carmen Arvale, Livius Andronicus, Duenos Inscription
Document Summary
* writing in the roman world can happen in many different ways. * tablets were used to write, carve into the wood itself. * variety of different ways of writing letters that change through society. * in roman world, literature de ned as texts written in latin. * greek texts written under roman rule often still classi ed as greek literature. * latin is dominant form in western and greek in the east. * latin alphabet borrowed from estrucan civilization (who adopted in from greek civilization) * greek alphabet has similarities and origin like our alphabet today. * greek introduced vowels in to the alphabet. * latin alphabet is 24 letters as ours is 26. * few early latin texts known (earliest appear to be 8th or 7th century bc) * early writing could be both left-to-right or right-to-left (or combination of the two)
