希腊文明的文字之源——从闪米特文字到古希腊字母

The Origin of Character in Greek Civilization——From Semite Character to Ancient Greek Letters

古希腊从东方输入了许多"产品",其中包括对希腊文明产生重大影响的腓尼基文字,毋庸置疑,这些腓尼基文字具有闪米特的起源。古老的象形文字经由改造,制成可以表达抽象思维的字母。通过这些字母的排列组合,古希腊人通过误读而构建出西方文明史上最古老的文字——希腊文。由24个拼音字母组成的语句具有多种多样的表达方式,既能展现诗性思维,又能构建哲学理念。从这层意义上说,古希腊文明的形成、戏剧的繁荣以及哲学的产生,都离不开从东方借鉴的外来文字。文化传播给西方文明起源带来了重要契机。

Ancient Greece input from the east many ＂production＂,among which the Phenicia character had important influence on Greek civilization.Undoubtedly,these characters had Semite origin.The ancient hieroglyphics was transformed to be the letters expressing the abstract thought.The ancient Greeks misread the combinations of these letters,and then they constructed the oldest character in the western civilization—Greek.Sentences made up of 24 letters had various expressing modes.Not only could they show the poetic thinking,but also they could construct the philosophical ideas.In this sense,the formation of the ancient civilization,the prosperity of its drama,and the formation of the philosophy are inseparable from the foreign characters input from the east.Cultural transmission had brought an important opportunity to the origin of the western civilization.