Roman Alphabet

Roman Alphabet

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Roman mythology ascribes to Evander the introduction of the alphabet into central Italy. Evander, who also appears in Virgil’s Aenid, was a Greek who settled on the Palatine hill near the river Tiber not long before the Trojan war, before the founding of Rome.

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