Source: Law & Liberty
by Nadya William
“One of the earliest known instances of writing using the Greek alphabet combines vandalism with poetic experimentation. Sometime in the eighth century BC at Pithekoussai, a Greek colony on Ischia, a small island off the coast of Italy, a dinner guest rudely defaced one of his host’s fine drinking cups. … While the Greeks eventually settled on writing from left to right, a variety of letter shapes and directions of writing survive in the earliest inscriptions in the Greek alphabet. … the three lines of writing proceed in a boustrophedon fashion — as the ox ploughs. The first line goes from right to left, then the second line turns around and goes from left to right, and the last one is from right to left again. What we see is a civilization on the cusp of adopting a new revolutionary technology: writing with an alphabet.” (02/20/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/civilizational-hardware-and-software/