A minor player in the mediterranean athens rose to prominence in the 6th and 5th centuries bc transforming into the cultural and intellectual epicenter of the ancient world.
Attic greek language.
Attic dialect ancient greek dialect that was the language of ancient athens its closest relative was the ionic dialect of euboea with the ascendance of the athenian empire in the course of the 5th century bc attic became the most prestigious of the greek dialects and as a result was adopted later as the standard language by the macedonian kings.
Moreover accentuation varies in greek words and in early greek was musical.
Syntax of the greek language especially of the attic dialect for the use of schools by johan nicolai madvig 1873 syntax of the moods and tenses of the greek verb by william goodwin 1879 a brief greek syntax and hints on greek accidence by frederic farrar 1870.
Greek has been spoken in the balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium bc or possibly earlier.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
Moreover it became in hellenistic times the.