Attica was and, of course, still is the region around the famous Greek capital city, Athens, incorporating the Attic peninsula: a city-state in ancient times with a mid-late 5th century BCE Golden Age which began with an eventual Athenian-led defeat of a Persian invasion by a coalition of city-states known as the Delian League (a Persian invasion ~480-79 BCE sacked the city and burnt and looted the Old or Pre-Parthenon and the Old Temple of Athena, the Arkhaios Neōs (ἀρχαῖος νεώς, "ancient temple"), on the Athenian Acropolis).
Atticism
.... Atticism drew from Greece’s rich past and originated in its illustrious city of Athens ....
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Athens gradually overwhelmed its allies to form an Athenian empire, relocating the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens in 454-3 BCE in the process.
The Athenian Acropolis was re-developed, first with the reconstruction of the southern and northern walls, and then the re-building of most of the major temples, including the Parthenon, by order of Pericles who, lauded as a general, politician and orator who promoted the arts, literature and Athenian democracy, was the de facto ruler of the state (the only office he ever officially occupied was the generalship to which he was re-elected annually).
The extent to which Pericles was a great orator is debated with allegations that Thucydides altered accounts and records of Pericles' speeches. Plato gives mixed messages about Pericles' oratory skills in his Gorgias and Menexenus.
But Pericles' legacies are monumental. He is lauded as the perfect statesman in ancient Greece and his Funeral Oration is synonymous with the struggle for participatory democracy and civic pride.
The Athenian Golden Age extended into the Greek 'Classical Period' which extended into the 4th century BCE which, in turn, extended into what has been dubbed, since Johann Gustav Droysen, coined the term in the 19th century, 'the Hellenistic Period,' a phenomenon not as generalised as that term implies, eg., some areas of the conquered world were more Greek influenced than others. The term Hellenistic also implies that the Greek populations were of majority in the areas in which they settled, but in many cases, the Greek settlers were actually the minority among the native populations. The Greek population and the native population did not always mix, etc.
Anyway, Attic Greek is probably the greatest contributor to Koine Greek
Statistics: Posted by MrMacSon — Sat Nov 09, 2024 3:21 pm