ancient Greek
From old Athens
Ancient Greek refers to the Greek language as spoken and written from roughly 800 BCE to 300 CE, the language of Homer, Plato, and the New Testament.
It also describes things from that era: ancient Greek philosophy, ancient Greek architecture.
The term distinguishes classical antiquity from modern Greece and its language.
- AthensGreece's capital city
- SpartaAncient Greek warrior state
- city stateAutonomous urban territory
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- Socratic methodTeaching by strategic questioning
mythology · toga · columns · marble statue · Olympics · olive wreath · Parthenon · agora · Homer · Plato · Socrates · Zeus · Mount Olympus · temple · amphitheater · democracy · laurel · marble
- Language & Wordstranslation, etymology, grammar, vocabulary, phonetics
- humanitiesphilosophy, history, literature, philosophy class, novels
- Ancient GreekHomer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides
- etymologyword origins, word history, word origin, etymon, root words
- ancient languagesLatin, Sanskrit, Aramaic, Sumerian, Akkadian
- AristotleLyceum, Metaphysics, logic, ethics, telos
ancient Greekmodern
Of recent times
contemporary · present-day · current · futuristic · postmodern
ancient Greekancient Roman
From the Latin empire
Roman · Latin · Persian · barbarian · Babylonian
ancient Greekliving language
Language still naturally spoken
vernacular · Latin · modern language · demotic · colloquial speech
ancient, anciently, ancientness, Greek, Greece, Grecian, Greeks