The Ancient Greek Language has different theories of origin; firstly some believe it migrated with the Proto-Greek speakers into the Greek Peninsula, dating from 2500BC to 1700 BC. Second Theory considers the migration into Greece happened before Proto-Greek, so the characteristics of Greek sounds were later. Ancient Greek Dialects.

Mycenaean Greek was the language of Mycenaean civilization and is recorded in the Linear B script dating from the 15 th century on. Ancient Greek was widely throughout the Roman Empire. The language fell into disuse in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, but remained in use in the Byzantine world. The Ancient Greek language was re-introduced ...

In Gnomon the teaching of the Ancient Greek Language is developed in three levels with the following characteristics: Fruitful knowledge of main aspects of the Ancient Greek Culture. Take the first steps to the language structure, through Grammar and Syntax. Learn the Greek polytonic writing system. Be acquainted with the miraculous world of ...

Short History of the Greek Language The following text is a translation of the closing chapter to the "Modern-Greek Grammar", a book that is used to teach Grammar to Greek High School students. I thought that, despite its "patriotic" context, it provides a good summary of the history of the Greek language, that is why I included it here ...

Koine, the fairly uniform Hellenistic Greek spoken and written from the 4th century bc until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (mid-6th century ad) in Greece, Macedonia, and the parts of Africa and the Middle East that had come under the influence or control of Greeks or of Hellenized rulers. Based chiefly on the Attic dialect, the Koine had superseded the other …

Winfred P. Lehmann and Jonathan Slocum. Greek has been important in the intellectual life of western civilization, but not to the extent of Latin except for ecclesiastical matters. In years past, Latin was introduced in the first year of High School, followed by Greek in the third year. The prominence of Greek for intellectual matters is ...

The ancient Greeks at war. Learn about ancient Greek soldiers, the Spartan soldier state and read about famous Greek battles.

Sub for posts about Ancient Greek history, archaeology, language, philosophy, art, poetry, theatre - anything interesting about the culture and history of the ancient Hellenes, from around 1500 BCE until the demise of the Ancient World (approximately 400 CE). This is a …

The ancient Greek dialects are influential even to this day with much Greek vocabulary embedded in the Modern Greek and English languages. Likewise, the art and architecture of ancient Greece has remained relevant and influential up to our time in the breadth of western society. ... It was no easy task to compress the history of Ancient Greece ...

Greek dialects and the poetic super-language. In this video, Gregory Nagy discusses with Douglas Frame and Leonard Muellner an introduction to how ancient Greek dialects function in Homeric poetry: what the different dialects are, how different forms fit into the metrical structure, and the evolution and perpetuation of the poetic super-language.

Ancient Greek history, politics, religion, literature, how they fit together, how they blend, how they come into conflict and why. From a linguistic perspective the first thing that needs to be said about Herodotus’s Histories , is that Herodotus is from a place on what is now the top coast of Turkey, the Ionian Coast.