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Definition of Classical greek
1. Noun. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia.
Definition of Classical greek
1. Proper noun. The form of Ancient Greek language used during the classical period of Greek literature: approximately 600 to 300 BC. The language of the poets and philosophers: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Aristotle, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Classical Greek
Literary usage of Classical greek
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by Frank Byron Jevons (1894)
"CLASSICAL Greek Literature begins with Homer, and ends practically, if not precisely
... classical greek literature is the proper introduction to literature ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"A History of classical greek Literature. By JP Mahaffy. Two vols. London: Macmillan,
1903. 3. Greek Literature. By RC Jebb. In the Companion to Greek ..."
3. A History of Classical Scholarship by John Edwin Sandys (1908)
"... translated into classical Greek the German/a of Tacitus, with three of ...
when there was a marked revival of interest in classical Greek ; and (3) in ..."
4. Hellenic Civilization by George Willis Bostsford (1915)
"(Berlin, 1901, 1902); Lawton, WC, Introduction to classical greek Literature (Scribner,
1903) ; Jebb, RC, Growth and Influence of classical greek Poetry ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"This was, in one way, a distinct advantage, since there is a large continuity
both of idiom and of vocabulary between classical Greek and the more polished ..."
6. A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"Even among the Byzantine Greeks of the East a knowledge of the classical Greek
was a rare thing; and while many travelers and some students had come in ..."
7. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"184), will probably find more confirmation in later than in classical Greek.
Even in post-classical Greek the very frequency of 6 ..."
8. Bibliotheca Sacra by Dallas Theological Seminary (1890)
"out to point out deviations from classical Greek, but he has unconsciously ...
The author's knowledge of classical Greek was evidently very great, ..."
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