I am wondering when words were capitalized in Homeric Greek. Titles of books? Names of people? Of places? Government offices? Perhaps significant events (like the Trojan War)?
Pardon my beginner's ignorance!
Sinister Petrus wrote:They weren't. Capitals hadn't been invented at the time the epics were finally written down. Or accents or breathing marks. Or spaces or punctuation. It would've been written like this:
THEYWERENTCAPITALSHADNTBEENINVENTEDATTHETIMETHEEPISWEREFINALLYWRITTENDOWN
Rothbardian wrote:Well, that looks very much like capitals to me!
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