In Herodotus writings concerning the alphabet that was created by the Phoenicians.

Phoenicians where a Greek tribe originating north of Greece opposed the island of Corfu it has no relation with the Semitic Puni peoples of west Syria, the name Phoenicians was given to Punis by the Greeks Because they founded a dye colour purplish red or fuchsia used to colour emperors and kings red robes, and the name (Φοινός, Φοινικός = Foinos, Foinikos) is fuchsia colour.

Herodotus is referring to Greek Phoenicians and not to the Semitic Puni Phoenicians as widely misunderstood, but in one way or another the alphabet was not created from either one of them, the alphabet evolved from south of Greece Mycenae, and Minoan Crete.

Herodotus (484-425 B.C.)
Herodotus on the origins of the Greek Alphabet: (5.58-61) from Herodotus, The Histories, transl. Audrey de Selincourt,
Penguin Books, 1972. ISBN 0-14-044034-8 Repulsed from Sparta.

Aristagoras (?-497 BC) went on to Athens, which had been liberated from autocratic government in the way which I will now describe.
Hipparchus (600-527 BC), the son of Pisistratus and brother of the despot Hippias, in spite of a vivid dream which warned him of his danger, was murdered by Harmodius and *Aristogiton (555-514 BC), two men belonging to the family of the Gephyraei the murder, however, did the Athenians no good, for the oppression they suffered during the four succeeding years was worse than before.

Hipparchus had dreamt, on the night before the Panathenaic festival, that the tall and beautiful figure of a man stood over his bed and spoke to him these obscure and riddling words: O lion, endure the unendurable with enduring heart; No man does wrong and shall not pay the penalty.

At dawn next morning he was seen communicating his dream to the interpreters; but later he put it out of his mind and took part in the procession, during which he was killed.

The Gephyraei, to whom the two men who killed Hipparchus be-longed...I have myself looked into the matter and find that they were really Phoenicians, descendants of those who came with Cadmus to what is now Boeotia where they were allotted the district of Tanagra to make their homes in.

After the expulsion of the Cadmeans by the Argiva, the Gephyraei were expelled by the Boeotians and took refuge in Athens, where they were received into the community on certain stated terms, which excluded them from a few privileges not worth mentioning here.

*The Phoenicians who came with Cadmus - amongst whom were the Gephyraei - introduced into Greece, after their settlement in the country, a number of accomplishments, of which the most important was writing, an art till then, I think, unknown to the Greeks.

At first they used the same characters as all the other Phoenicians, but as time went on, and they changed their language, they also changed the shape of their letters.

At that period most of the Greeks in the neighborhood were Ionians; they were taught these letters by the Phoenicians and adopted them, with a few alterations, for their own use.

*( Cadmean Phoenicians one of many Greek tribes )

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