WHAT YEAR WAS THE PHOENICIAN WRITING STYLE ADOPTED BY THE GREEKS?
it wasn’t adopted overnight but over a long period of time as it was spread to more and more people – from this extract it would seem that it would have hot to Greece between 900 and 800 BC The earliest known inscriptions in Phoenician come from Byblos and date back to ca. 1000 BC. Phoenician inscriptions are found in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Cyprus and other locations, as late as the early centuries of the Christian Era. In Phoenician colonies around the western Mediterranean, beginning in the 9th century BC, Phoenician evolved into Punic. Punic Phoenician was still spoken in the 5th century CE: St. Augustine, for example, grew up in North Africa and was familiar with the language.
