Short answers, pulled from the story.
Scholars agree that the script originated sometime in the late 9th or early 8th century BC. The earliest inscribed objects bearing the Greek alphabet date from around 775 BC.
The final form known as the Eucleidean alphabet emerged by the end of the 4th century BC. This standard contained exactly twenty-four letters ordered from alpha to omega.
The scholar Aristophanes of Byzantium developed the system of diacritics during the 3rd century BC at the Musaeum in Alexandria. These marks originally indicated different forms of pitch accent before evolving into stress accents.
In May 2021, the World Health Organization announced that SARS-CoV-2 variants would be named using Greek letters. This decision aimed to simplify communication for non-scientific audiences.
The name alpha derives from aleph meaning ox while beta comes from bet which means house. The Greeks adopted these names when they took the Phoenician alphabet but adapted their pronunciation to fit Greek phonology.