Editing Epsilon (section)

===Glyph variants===
After the establishment of the canonical Ionian (Euclidean) [[Greek alphabet]], new glyph variants for Ε were introduced through handwriting. In the [[uncial script]] (used for literary [[papyrus]] manuscripts in late antiquity and then in early medieval [[vellum]] codices), the "[[lunate]]" shape (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek uncial Epsilon.svg|inline|x12px]]</span>) became predominant. In [[cursive]] handwriting, a large number of shorthand glyphs came to be used, where the cross-bar and the curved stroke were linked in various ways.<ref name="thompson">{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Edward M. |title=An Introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography |publisher=Clarendon |year=1911 |place=Oxford |pages=191–194}}</ref> Some of them resembled a modern lowercase Latin "e", some a "6" with a connecting stroke to the next letter starting from the middle, and some a combination of two small "c"-like curves. Several of these shapes were later taken over into [[minuscule Greek|minuscule]] book hand. Of the various minuscule letter shapes, the inverted-3 form became the basis for lower-case Epsilon in Greek typography during the modern era.

{|class="wikitable"
!Uncial
!Uncial variants
!Cursive variants
!Minuscule
!Minuscule with ligatures
|-
|style="background-color: white !important;"|[[File:Greek uncial Epsilon.svg|inline|x20px]]
|style="background-color: white !important;"|[[File:Greek uncial variants Epsilon.svg|inline|x30px]]
|style="background-color: white !important;"|[[File:Greek cursive variants Epsilon.svg|inline|x30px]]
|style="background-color: white !important;"|[[File:Greek minuscule Epsilon.svg|inline|x40px]]
|style="background-color: white !important;"|[[File:Greek minuscule Epsilon with ligatures.svg|inline|x40px]]
|}