fromPsychology Today
3 days agoThe Strange Second Life of the Greek Alphabet
What do secret societies, infectious diseases, and male dominance hierarchies have in common? They all make use of a symbol system that was first developed over 2,500 years ago. Since that time, it has been continually repurposed in all sorts of surprising ways. There may be no set of characters as widely deployed-or as adaptable-as the letters of the Greek alphabet.
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