A Conversation for The Development of the Western Alphabet
Graves in literature and on TV
AgProv4 Started conversation Apr 24, 2019
Ah, so that explains the "I, CLAVDIVS" thing that amused us as adolescent boys... we used to think "if the Romans were that clever, why didn't they invent the letter "U"? (The TV series was valued by thirteen year old boys if only for the depravity and nudity... the Classics master at school was alternatively grumpily fed up, feeling this was making his job un-necessarily hard - but he did relent and introduced us to Suetonius "Twelve Caesars", pointing out this is whrre Graves got the source material, and pointed out we should at least go to the source and not a flashy TV show. and no, it is NOT pronounced "Clavdivs", the V was also the Roman "u", please PAY ATTENTION!
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