Ancient Greek
Plato's native language
Ancient Greek is the language spoken in Greece from roughly 800 BCE to 300 CE, the tongue of Homer, Plato, and the New Testament.
It's also the academic field studying this language and its literature: She majored in Ancient Greek.
The term distinguishes this classical language from Modern Greek, spoken today.
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