Michael

10%
Flag icon
No person of ambition in the Greek world could any longer afford to speak the language that had been learned at home but was forced to learn the elevated Attic idiom. This was more or less true even for Athenians, whose spoken vernacular, four hundred years after the classical period, was no longer that of Aristophanes. From then on, Attic Greek was passed on from teacher to student, not from parent to child.
Latin: Story of a World Language
Rate this book
Clear rating
Open Preview