the classical period: in Plato's day, Greek was written with letters of only one size, with no diacritical marks or word separation, and little or no punctuation. The introduction of the Byzantine minuscule script after 800 c.e. was the most significant of many changes: the modern small letters derive from this script, itself the result of a
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When and _why_ did they start to separate words, I wonder.
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Подробнее см.: https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/29648/ (Наука и жизнь, «И надо оставлять пробелы…»)
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