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Classical Greek

NOUN
  1. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia

How To Use Classical Greek In A Sentence

  • During the Classical Greek period from about 480 to 300 B.C. most necklaces were three dimensional pendants.
  • Such verse was unknown in classical Greek but common in Latin and the Celtic and Germanic languages.
  • The design of the building is modelled on classical Greek forms.
  • This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy.
  • Democracies, many classical Greeks believed, were slow to fight, but more effective when they fought (ancient memory suggests this assertion is somewhere in Thucydides, but I could not find the exact citation). Balkinization
  • This ancient Middle Eastern source furnished the basis for classical Greek medical and philosophical theories of hysteria.
  • Translated by Andrea L. Purvis, with a introduction by Rosalind Thomas, The Landmark Herodotus is a hefty tome that will delight any historian or fan of Herodotus and the classical Greek period. “The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories” by Herodotus, Robert B. Strassler, Andrea L. Purvis (Pantheon, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
  • As the classical Greek tragedy bible dictates, the spurned queen is duty-bound to seek vengeance, and both innocent and guilty are indiscriminately caught up in the inevitable bloodbath and terrifying climax.
  • The long blonde curls piled high on her head with glorious cascades of golden silk falling against the top of her classical Greek peplos.
  • It contains thirty-two poems, of which twenty-six are in hexameters, the standard metre for post-classical Greek encomiastic poetry.
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