Ancient Greek
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|nativename ={{lang|grc|Ἀρχαία Ἑλληνική}}<br />''{{transl|grc|ISO|Ark<sup>h</sup>aía Hellēnikḗ}}''
|region =eastern [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]]
|extinct =developed into [[Koine Greek|Koiné Greek]] by the [[4th century BC]]
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|script = [[Greek alphabet]]
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[[Image:Beginning Odyssey.svg|thumb|245px|Beginning of [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'']]
The '''Ancient Greek language''' is the historical stage of the [[Greek language]]<ref name="andriotes">{{cite book |title=Historia tēs Hellēnikēs glōssas : tesseris meletes |last=Andriotis |first=Nikolaos P. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1992 |publisher=Institouto Neoellēnikōn Spoudōn |location=Thessalonikē |isbn=9602310588 |pages= }}</ref> as it existed during the [[Archaic Greece|Archaic]] (9th–6th centuries [[Anno Domini|BC]]) and [[Classical Greece|Classical]] (5th–4th centuries BC) periods in [[Ancient Greece]]. The [[Hellenistic]] (post-Classic) period of Ancient Greece formally constitutes its own stage in the Greek language known as [[Koine Greek]].
Ancient Greek is subdivided into various [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialects]], including the [[Homeric Greek]] of the [[Homer|Homeric poems]], and the [[Attic Greek]] of great works of literature and philosophy of the [[Athenian Golden Age]].
For information on the Hellenic language family prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet]], see articles [[Mycenaean language|Mycenaean Greek]] and [[Proto-Greek language|Proto-Greek]].
== Dialects of Ancient Greek ==
{{History of the Greek language}}{{main|Ancient Greek dialects}}
The origins, early forms, and early development of the [[Hellenic]] language family are not well understood, owing to the lack of contemporaneous evidence. There are several theories about what Hellenic dialect groups may have existed between the divergence of early Greek-like speech from the common [[Proto-Indo-European language|Indo-European]] language (not later than 2000 BC), and about 1200 BC. They have the same general outline but differ in some of the detail. The only attested dialect from this period<ref>Imprecisely attested and somewhat reconstructive due to its being written in a syllabary ([[Linear B]]) rather than an alphabet.</ref> is [[Mycenaean language|Mycenaean]], but its relationship to the historical dialects and the historical circumstances of the times imply that the overall groups already existed in some form.
The major dialect groups of the Ancient Greek period can be assumed to have developed not later than 1100 BC, at the time of the [[Dorian invasion]](s), and their first appearances as precise alphabetic writing began in the [[8th Century BC]]. The invasion would not be "Dorian" unless the invaders had some cultural relationship to the historical Dorians; moreover, the invasion is known to have displaced population to the later Attic-Ionic regions, who regarded themselves as descendants of the population displaced by or contending with the Dorians.
The ancient Greeks themselves considered there to be three major divisions of the Greek people, into Dorians, Aeolians, and Ionians (including Athenians), each with their own defining and distinctive dialects. Allowing for their oversight of Arcadian, an obscure mountain dialect, and Cyprian, far from the center of Greek scholarship, this division of people and language is quite similar to the results of modern archaeological-linguistic investigation. This is very important to realize because of the content and the change that has occurred.
One standard formulation for the dialects is:<ref>This one is to be found in recent versions of the ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', which also lists the major works defining the subject.</ref>
[[Image:AncientGreekDialects.png|thumb|305px|Distribution of Greek dialects, ca. [[400 BC]].]]
* West Group
** Northwest Greek
** [[Doric Greek|Doric]]
* [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolic Group]]
** Aegean/Asiatic Aeolic
** Thessalian
** Boeotian
* [[Ionic Greek|Ionic-Attic Group]]
** [[Attic Greek|Attica]]
** Euboea and colonies in Italy
** Cyclades
** Asiatic Ionia
* [[Arcadocypriot|Arcado-Cypriot]]
** Arcadian
** Cypriot
** Pamphylian
West and non-west Greek is the strongest and earliest division, with the non-west in subsets of Ionic-Attic (or Attic-Ionic) and Aeolic vs. Arcado-Cyprian, or Aeolic and Arcado-Cyprian vs. Ionic-Attic. Often non-west is called East Greek.
The Arcado-Cyprian group is descended more closely from the [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] Greek of the Bronze Age.
Boeotian had come under a strong Northwest Greek influence, and can in some respects be considered a transitional dialect. Thessalian likewise had come under Northwest Greek influence, though to a lesser degree.
[[Pamphylian Greek|Pamphylian]], spoken in a small area on the south-western coast of Asia Minor and little preserved in inscriptions, may be either a fifth major dialect group, or Mycenaean Greek overlaid by Doric, with a non-Greek native influence.
[[Ancient Macedonian language|Ancient Macedonian]] was an [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] language closely related to Greek, but its exact relationship is unclear: possibly a [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialect of Greek]]; a sibling language to Greek; or a close cousin to Greek, and perhaps related to some extent, to [[Thracian language|Thracian]] and [[Phrygian language|Phrygian]] languages.
Most of the dialect sub-groups listed above had further subdivisions, generally equivalent to a city-state and its surrounding territory, or an island. Doric notably had several intermediate divisions as well, into Island Doric (including [[Cretan]] Doric), Southern Peloponnesus Doric (including [[Doric Greek|Laconian]], the dialect of [[Sparta]]), and Northern Peloponnesus Doric (including Corinthian). The Lesbian dialect was a member of the Aegean/Asiatic Aeolic sub-group. All the groups were represented by colonies beyond Greece proper as well, and these colonies generally developed local characteristics, often under the influence of settlers or neighbors speaking different Greek dialects.
The dialects outside the Ionic group are known mainly from inscriptions, notable exceptions being fragments of the works of the poetess from the island of [[Lesbos]], Sappho, and the poems of the Spartan poet, Pindar.
After the conquests of [[Alexander the Great]] in the 4th century BC, a new international dialect known as [[Koine]] or Common Greek developed, largely based on [[Attic Greek]], but with influence from other dialects. This dialect slowly replaced most of the older dialects, although Doric dialect has survived to the present in the form of the [[Tsakonian]] and [[Griko|Southern Italian]] dialects of [[Modern Greek]]. Doric has also passed down its aorist terminations into most verbs of [[Demotic Greek]]. By about the 6th century AD, the Koine had slowly metamorphosized into [[Medieval Greek]].
==Sound changes==
{{Table Greekletters}}
These sound changes since [[Proto-Greek language|Proto-Greek]] affect most or all Ancient Greek dialects:
*[[Syllabic consonant|Syllabic]] /r/, /l/ become /ro/ and /lo/ in [[Mycenean Greek]] and [[Aeolic Greek]]; otherwise /ra/ and /la/, but /ar/ and /al/ before [[Sonorant|resonants]] and analogously. Example: Indo-European [http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE503.html *str-to-] becomes Aeolic strotos, otherwise stratos, "army".
*Loss of /h/ from original /s/ (except initially) and of /j/. Examples: treis "three" from *treyes; Doric nikaas "having conquered" for nikahas from nikasas.
*Loss of /w/ in many dialects (later than loss of /h/ and /j/). Example: etos "year" from wetos.
*Loss of [[labiovelar]]s, which were converted (mostly) into labials, sometimes into dentals or velars.
*Contraction of adjacent vowels resulting from loss of /h/ and /j/ (and, to a lesser extent, from loss of /w/); more in [[Attic Greek]] than elsewhere.
*Rise of a distinctive [[circumflex]] accent, resulting from contraction and certain other changes.
*Limitation of the accent to the last three syllables, with various further restrictions.
*Loss of /n/ before /s/ (incompletely in Cretan Greek), with [[compensatory lengthening]] of the preceding vowel.
Note that /w/ and /j/, when following a vowel and not preceding a vowel, combined early on with the vowel to form a diphthong and were thus not lost.
The loss of /h/ and /w/ after a consonant were often accompanied by [[compensatory lengthening]] of a preceding vowel. The loss of /j/ after a consonant was accompanied by a large number of complex changes, including diphthongization of a preceding vowel or [[palatalization]] or other change to a directly preceding consonant. Some examples:
*/pj/, /bj/, /phj/ -> /pt/
*/lj/ -> /ll/
*/tj/, /thj/, /kj/, /khj/ -> /s/ when following a consonant; otherwise /ss/ or /tt/ (Attic)
*/gj/, /dj/ -> /zd/
*/mj/, /nj/, /rj/ -> /j/ is transposed before consonant and forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel
*/wj/, /sj/ -> /j/, forming a diphthong with the preceding vowel
The results of vowel contraction were complex with dialect to dialect. Such contractions occur in the inflection of a number of different noun and verb classes and are among the most difficult aspects of Ancient Greek grammar. They were particularly important in the large class of ''contracted verbs'', denominative verbs formed from nouns and adjectives ending in a vowel. (In fact, the reflex of contracted verbs in [[Modern Greek]]—i.e., the set of verbs derived from Ancient Greek contracted verbs—represents one of the two main classes of verbs in that language.)
== Phonology ==
{{details|Ancient Greek phonology}}
The pronunciation of [[Koine Greek|Post-Classic Greek]] changed considerably from Ancient Greek, although the orthography still reflects features of the older language (see W. Sidney Allen, ''Vox Graeca – a guide to the pronunciation of Classical Greek''). For a detailed description on the [[phonology]] changes from Ancient to Hellenistic periods of the [[Greek language]], see the article on [[Koine Greek]].
The examples below are intended to represent Attic Greek in the [[5th century BC]]. Although ancient pronunciation can never be reconstructed with certainty, Greek in particular is very well documented from this period, and there is little disagreement among linguists as to the general nature of the sounds that the letters represented.
===Vowels===
====Short vowels====
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<th width="20%"> </th>
<th width="40%" colspan=2>[[Front vowel|Front]]</th>
<th width="40%" colspan=2>[[Back vowel|Back]]</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="center">[[unrounded vowel|unrounded]]</td>
<td align="center">[[rounded vowel|rounded]]</td>
<td align="center">[[unrounded vowel|unrounded]]</td>
<td align="center">[[rounded vowel|rounded]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Close vowel|Close]]</th>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/i/}} </td>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/y/}} </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Close-mid vowel|Mid]]</th>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/e/}} </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/o/}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Open vowel|Open]]</th>
<th colspan=4 align="center">{{IPA|/a/}} </td>
</tr>
</table>
==== Long vowels====
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<th width="20%"> </th>
<th width="40%" colspan=2>[[Front vowel|Front]]</th>
<th width="40%" colspan=2>[[Back vowel|Back]]</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="center">[[unrounded vowel|unrounded]]</td>
<td align="center">[[rounded vowel|rounded]]</td>
<td align="center">[[unrounded vowel|unrounded]]</td>
<td align="center">[[rounded vowel|rounded]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Close vowel|Close]]</th>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/iː/}} </td>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/yː/}} </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]</th>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/eː/}} </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/oː/}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]</th>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/ɛː/}} </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center"> </td>
<td align="center">{{IPA|/ɔː/}} </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="left">[[Open vowel|Open]]</th>
<th colspan=4 align="center">{{IPA|/aː/}} </td>
</tr>
</table>
{{IPA|/oː/}} probably raised to {{IPA|[uː]}} by the fourth century BC.
====Compensatory lengthening====
There are different schemes for compensatory lengthening, depending on where it happens. The differences are in whether {{IPA|/a/}} becomes {{IPA|[aː]}} or {{IPA|[ɛː]}}, and whether {{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/o/}} become the closed values {{IPA|[eː]}} and {{IPA|[oː]}} or the open ones {{IPA|[ɛː]}} and {{IPA|[ɔː]}}.
===Consonants===
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
! width="100px"|
! colspan=2| [[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan=2| [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
!
! [[bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! [[dental consonant|Dental]]
! [[velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
| [[plosive consonant|'''Plosive''']]
| align="center"| {{IPA|/p/ /b/}}
| align="center"| {{IPA|/t̪/ /d̪/}}
| align="center"| {{IPA|/k/ /g/}}
| align="center"|
|-
| '''[[Aspiration (phonetics)|Aspirated]]''' [[plosive consonant|'''Plosive''']]
| align="center"| {{IPA|/pʰ/ }}
| align="center"| {{IPA|/t̪ʰ/ }}
| align="center"| {{IPA|/kʰ/ }}
| align="center"|
|-
| [[nasal consonant|'''Nasal''']]
| align="center"| {{IPA|/m/}}
| align="center"| {{IPA|/n/}}
| align="center"| {{IPA|~ [ŋ]}}
| align="center"|
|-
| [[Trill consonant|'''Trill''']]
| align="center"|
| align="center"| {{IPA|/r/}} ~ {{IPA|[r̥]}}
| align="center"|
| align="center"|
|-
| [[fricative consonant|'''Fricative''']]
| align="center"|
| align="center"| {{IPA|/s/ ~ [z]}}
| align="center"|
| align="center"| {{IPA|/h/}}
|-
| [[Lateral approximant|'''Lateral approximant''']]
| align="center"|
| align="center"| {{IPA|/l/}}
| align="center"|
| align="center"|
|}
{{IPA|[z]}} was an [[allophone]] of {{IPA|/s/}}, used before voiced consonants;{{Fact|date=December 2007}}<!-- Source for the claim that the sigma of ancient Greek could be pronounced as /z/. --> {{IPA|[ŋ]}} occurred as an allophone of {{IPA|/n/}} used before velars and as an allophone of {{IPA|/ɡ/}} before nasals, while {{IPA|[r̥]}}, written ({{polytonic|ῥ}}), was probably a voiceless allophone of {{IPA|/r/}} used word initially.
====Consonant classes====
There are three main classes of consonants:
*Stops. This include three subclasses: velars ({{IPA|/k/, /g/, /kʰ/}}), labials ({{IPA|/p/, /b/, /pʰ/}}), and dentals ({{IPA|/t/, /d/, /tʰ/}}).
*Sonorants are {{IPA|/m/, /n/, /l/, /r/}}.
*Fricatives are {{IPA|/s/ and /h/}}.
====Contractions====
In verb conjugation, one consonant often comes up against the other. Various [[sandhi]] rules apply.
Rules:
*'''Most basic rule''': When two sounds appear next to each other, the first assimilates in voicing and aspiration to the second.
**This applies fully to stops. Fricatives assimilate only in voicing, sonorants do not assimilate.
*Before an {{IPA|/s/}} (future, aorist stem), velars become {{IPA|[k]}}, labials become {{IPA|[p]}}, and dentals disappear.
*Before a {{IPA|/tʰ/}} (aorist passive stem), velars become {{IPA|[kʰ]}}, labials become {{IPA|[pʰ]}}, and dentals become {{IPA|[s]}}.
*Before an {{IPA|/m/}} (perfect middle first-singular, first-plural, participle), velars become {{IPA|[g]}}, nasal+velar becomes {{IPA|[g]}}, labials become {{IPA|[m]}}, dentals become {{IPA|[s]}}, other sonorants remain the same.
==Morphology==
{{main|Ancient Greek grammar}}
Greek, like all of the older [[Indo-European languages]], is highly inflected. It is highly archaic in its preservation of [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] forms. In Ancient Greek [[noun]]s (including proper nouns) have five [[Declension|cases]] ([[nominative]], [[genitive]], [[dative]], [[Accusative case|accusative]] and [[vocative]]), three [[Grammatical gender|genders]] ([[Grammatical gender|masculine]], [[Grammatical gender|feminine]] and [[neuter]]), and three [[Grammatical number|numbers]] (singular, [[dual grammatical number|dual]] and [[plural]]). [[Verb]]s have four [[Grammatical mood|moods]] ([[indicative mood|indicative]], [[imperative mood|imperative]], [[subjunctive mood|subjunctive]], and [[optative mood|optative]]), three [[Grammatical voice|voices]] ([[active voice|active]], [[middle voice|middle]] and [[passive voice|passive]]), as well as three [[Grammatical person|persons]] (first, second and third) and various other forms. Verbs are conjugated through seven [[Grammatical tense|tenses]]: the [[present tense|present]], [[future tense|future]] and [[imperfect tense|imperfect]] tenses are [[imperfective]] in [[Grammatical aspect|aspect]]; the [[aorist tense]] ([[perfective]] aspect); a [[perfect tense|present-perfect]], [[pluperfect]] and [[future perfect]] (all with [[perfect aspect]]). Most tenses display all four moods and three voices, although there is no future subjunctive or imperative. There are infinitives and participles corresponding to the finite combinations of tense, aspect and voice.
===Augment===
The indicative of past [[Grammatical tense|tense]]s adds (conceptually, at least) a prefix /e-/. This was probably originally a separate word, meaning something like "then", added because tenses in PIE had primarily [[aspect]]ual meaning. The augment is added to the [[indicative]] of the [[aorist]], [[imperfect]] and [[pluperfect]], but not to any of the other forms of the aorist (no other forms of the imperfect and pluperfect exist).
There are two kinds of augment in Greek, syllabic and quantitative. The syllabic augment is added to stems beginning with consonants, and simply prefixes ''e'' (stems beginning with ''r'', however, add ''er''). The quantitative augment is added to stems beginning with vowels, and involves lengthening the vowel:
*a, ā, e, ē -> ē
*i, ī -> ī
*o, ō -> ō
*u, ū -> ū
*ai -> ēi
*ei -> ēi or ei
*oi -> ōi
*au -> ēu or au
*eu -> ēu or eu
*ou -> ou
Some verbs augment irregularly; the most common variation is ''e'' -> ''ei''. The irregularity can be explained diachronically by the loss of ''s'' between vowels.
Following [[Homer]]'s practice, the augment is sometimes not made in poetry, especially [[Epic Greek|epic]] poetry.
The augment sometimes substitutes for reduplication; see below.
===Reduplication===
Almost all forms of the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect reduplicate the initial syllable of the verb stem. (Note that a few irregular forms of perfect do not reduplicate, whereas a handful of irregular aorists reduplicate.) There are three types of [[reduplication]]:
*Syllabic reduplication: Most verbs beginning with a single consonant, or a cluster of a stop with a sonorant, add a syllable consisting of the initial consonant followed by ''e''. An aspirated consonant, however, reduplicates in its unaspirated equivalent: ''[[Grassmann's law]]''.
*Augment: Verbs beginning with a vowel, as well as those beginning with a cluster other than those indicated previously (and occasionally for a few other verbs) reduplicate in the same fashion as the augment. This remains in all forms of the perfect, not just the indicative.
*Attic reduplication: Some verbs beginning with an ''a'', ''e'' or ''o'', followed by a sonorant (or occasionally ''d'' or ''g''), reduplicate by adding a syllable consisting of the initial vowel and following consonant, and lengthening the following vowel. Hence ''er'' -> ''erēr'', ''an'' -> ''anēn'', ''ol'' -> ''olōl'', ''ed'' -> ''edēd''. This is not actually specific to [[Attic Greek]], despite its name; but it was generalized in Attic. This originally involved reduplicating a cluster consisting of a [[laryngeal]] and sonorant; hence ''h₃l'' -> ''h₃leh₃l'' -> ''olōl'' with normal Greek development of laryngeals. (Forms with a stop were analogous.)
Irregular duplication can be understood diachronically. For example, ''lambanō'' (root ''lab'') has the perfect stem ''eilēpha'' (not *''lelēpha'') because it was originally ''slambanō'', with perfect ''seslēpha'', becoming ''eilēpha'' through (semi-)regular change.
Reduplication is also visible in the present tense stems of certain verbs. These stems add a syllable consisting of the root's initial consonant followed by ''i''. A nasal consonant appears after the reduplication in some verbs.<ref name="Palmer1996p262">{{cite book |title=The Greek Language |last=Palmer |first=Leonard |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1996 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman, OK |isbn=0806128445 |pages=p. 262 }}</ref>
==Writing system==
{{main|Greek orthography}}
Ancient Greek was written in the [[Greek alphabet]], with some variation among dialects. Early texts are written in [[boustrephedon]] style, but left-to-right became standard during the classic period. Modern editions of Ancient Greek texts are usually written with [[polytonic orthography|accents and breathing marks]], [[interword spacing]], modern [[punctuation]], and sometimes [[capitalization|mixed case]], but these were all introduced later.
==Example text==
The following polytonic Greek text is from the [[Apology (Plato)|Apology]] by [[Plato]]:
:{{polytonic|Ὅτι μὲν ὑμεῖς, ὦ ἄνδρες Άθηναῖοι, πεπόνθατε ὑπὸ τῶν ἐμῶν κατηγόρων, οὐκ οἶδα: ἐγὼ δ' οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπ' αὐτῶν ὀλίγου ἐμαυτοῦ ἐπελαθόμην, οὕτω πιθανῶς ἔλεγον. Καίτοι ἀληθές γε ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν οὐδὲν εἰρήκασιν.}}
Transliterated into the Latin alphabet using a modern version of the [[Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching|Erasmian scheme]]:
:''{{lang|grc-Latn|Hóti mèn humeîs, ô ándres Athēnaîoi, pepónthate hupò tôn emôn katēgórōn, ouk oîda: eg{{Unicode|ṑ}} d' oûn kaì autòs hup' autōn olígou emautoû epelathómēn, hoútō pithanôs élegon. Kaítoi alēthés ge hōs épos eipeîn oudèn eir{{Unicode|ḗ}}kasin.}}''
Translated into English:
:What you, men of Athens, have learned from my accusers, I do not know: but I, for my part, nearly forgot who I was thanks to them since they spoke so persuasively. And yet, of the truth, they have spoken, one might say, nothing at all.
==Modern use of Ancient Greek==
Ancient Greek is often used in the coinage of modern technical terms in the European languages: see [[English words of Greek origin]].
Modern authors rarely write in Ancient Greek, though [[Jan Křesadlo]] wrote some poetry and prose in Ancient Greek, some volumes of [[Asterix]] have been written in Attic Greek [http://www.asterix-obelix.nl/manylanguages/greek-attic.htm] and ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' has been translated into Ancient Greek.<ref>ISBN 158234826X</ref>
it is also used to write news in web sites like [http://www.akwn.net/ Akropolis World News], and [http://www.in.gr/tech/arxaia.asp in.gr]
== See also ==
*[[Greek alphabet]]
*[[Diacritics (Greek alphabet)]]
*[[Polytonic orthography]]
*[[Koine Greek]]
*[[Medieval Greek]]
*[[Modern Greek]]
*[[Greek language]]
*[[List of Greek phrases]] (mostly Ancient Greek)
== External links ==
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{{Wiktionary}}
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* [http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/Greek.htm Recitation of classics books]
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html Perseus Greek and Roman Materials]
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_PersInfo.html Perseus Greek dictionaries]
*[http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ancient_greek_start.html Ancient Greek Tutorials8]
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