Attic Greek Language
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.
Attic greek language. The earliest written evidence is a linear b clay tablet found in messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 bc making greek the world s oldest recorded living language among the indo european languages its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct anatolian. Moreover it became in hellenistic times the. 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. Attic greek was the dialect of greek spoken in and around the ancient city state of athens.
Greek has been spoken in the balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium bc or possibly earlier. 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.