Proto-Greek noun The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenean and the classical Greek dialects, spoken by the ancestors of the Greeks even before they settled in Greece around 2000 BC.

Proto-greek. meaning. (0) Meanings. The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects; the language was already spoken by the ancestors of the Greeks in the Balkans (i.e. northwestern Greece) during the Late Neolithic period.

The Bronze Age civilization of the proto-Greeks is generally referred to as Helladic and preceded what is known as "ancient Greece". The so-called Mycenaean civilization culminated in this period, which features in the famous epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

14/11/2012 · There is no such thing as Proto-Greek. Greek is a religious language, CREATED for the purpose of liturgy and religious writings, and never been a vernacular language on the first place. Also, Linear B is not a syllabic language, but just some ideograms.

What does proto mean in Greek? proto-, prefix. proto- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning “first, foremost, earliest form of”:proto- + lithic → protolithic; protoplasm. Also,[esp. before a vowel,] prot-. Is there such a thing as a proto-state?

24/01/2019 · Greek myth and values paint us a picture of an extremely hierarchical society, which undoubtedly shaped the democratic institutions that followed. Institutionalist political scholars might view proto-democracy in ancient Greece along the same lines as European/American imperialism or the American slave trade, as sticky and producing long lasting legacies of …

The Proto-Greek language (also known as Proto-Hellenic) is the Indo-European language which was the last common ancestor of all varieties of Greek, including Mycenaean Greek, the subsequent ancient...

Proto-Geometric style, visual art style of ancient Greece that signaled the reawakening of technical proficiency and conscious creative spirit, especially in pottery making. With the collapse of the Minoan-Mycenaean civilization about the 12th century bc , the arts sustained by the palace bureaucracies disappeared, together with literacy.