Early History of The Alphabet

Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z.

From a New York Times-bestselling historian, the story of how the alphabet ordered our world

The History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the 3rd Century AD