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  2. Gupta script - Wikipedia

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    The Gupta script (sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi script or Late Brahmi script) [6] was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of the Indian subcontinent, which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments. The Gupta script was descended from Brāhmī and gave rise to the ...

  3. Shakuntala (play) - Wikipedia

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    Shakuntala was disapproved of as a text for school and college students in the British Raj in the 19th century, as popular Indian literature was deemed, in the words of Charles Trevelyan, to be "marked with the greatest immorality and impurity", and Indian students were thought by colonial administrators to be insufficiently morally and ...

  4. Chinese script styles - Wikipedia

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    Regular script is the most widely recognized style, and is the form taught to children in East Asian countries and others first learning to write characters. For students of calligraphy, regular script is usually studied first in order to provide students a base of knowledge from which to learn other, more flowing styles, including a sense of ...

  5. Greek literature - Wikipedia

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    Drama was represented by the New Comedy, of which Menander was the principal exponent. One of the most valuable contributions of the Hellenistic period was the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament into Greek. This work was done at Alexandria and completed by the end of the 2nd century BC. Strabo Roman Age (31 BC – 284 AD)

  6. Byzantine literature - Wikipedia

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    Music. People. Science. v. t. e. Byzantine literature is the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders. [1] It forms the second period in the history of Greek literature after Ancient Greek literature.

  7. Antigone (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    Antigone. (Sophocles play) Antigone ( / ænˈtɪɡəni / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written ...

  8. Large seal script - Wikipedia

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    The term large seal script traditionally refers to written Chinese dating from before the Qin dynasty —now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western and early Eastern Zhou dynasty ( c. 1046 – 403 BCE), or more broadly to also include the oracle bone script ( c. 1250 – c. 1000 BCE ). The term deliberately contrasts the small seal ...

  9. Carolingian minuscule - Wikipedia

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    Carolingian minuscule alphabet Example from 10th-century manuscript, Vulgate Luke 1:5–8.. Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another.