11-24-2005, 12:23 PM
Your Greek is fine Andy. The alphabet used is the Beotian from which the Latin alphabet evolved. The X might be I -looks like "runic" because the Kymeans wrote the I (GIOTA) in a stange way so it might be GRAIA(old woman-reference for godess Dimitra). That is why I offered both explanations. But it is positive that the term Greeks evolved in the West from that place because its possibly the oldest Greek colony in the west.
There linear B tablets in Pylos and Patra refering to the name so it might have benn established in the Bronze age.
Kind regards
Stefanos
There linear B tablets in Pylos and Patra refering to the name so it might have benn established in the Bronze age.
Kind regards
Stefanos
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