chalcidico-doric

Updated: May 1, 2025

It is certainly surprising that the koppa should be absent from the Greek alphabet that came to Etruria, when it otherwise so long maintained its place in the Chalcidico-Doric ; but this may well have been a local peculiarity of the town whose alphabet first reached Etruria.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

The Greek alphabet brought to the Etruscans from the Chalcidico-Doric colonies in Sicily or Campania varies not immaterially from that which the Latins derived from the same quarter, so that, although both peoples have drawn from the same source, they have done so at different times and different places.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

It is certainly surprising that the koppa should be absent from the Greek alphabet that came to Etruria, when it otherwise so long maintained its place in the Chalcidico-Doric ; but this may well have been a local peculiarity of the town whose alphabet first reached Etruria.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

The Greek alphabet brought to the Etruscans from the Chalcidico-Doric colonies in Sicily or Campania varies not immaterially from that which the Latins derived from the same quarter, so that, although both peoples have drawn from the same source, they have done so at different times and different places.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy