来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第2集 第2集》
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There is no writing in Greece from没有文字记载的时期是从 -
let us say 1100 or so on公元前一千一百年左右到 -
until the middle of the eighth century B.C.,公元前八世纪中叶 -
rough date 750差不多是公元前七百五十年 -
and then the writing that they do have而之后他们拥有的文献 -
is completely unrelated to the writing that was lost.就完全与那些遗失的史料脱钩了 -
They get it from a different place.他们从不同的地方获得资料 -
The letters, the design of the writing comes, in fact,事实上 材料中的字母和符号都来自 -
from Asia, probably from--almost certainly亚洲 很可能来自--应该能肯定是 -
from Phoenicia,来自腓尼基 -
the land that is now called Lebanon and the language就是现在被叫做黎巴嫩的地方 -
that was for that script was Semitic language.书稿的语言用的是闪米特语