Is ancient Greece and ancient Greek the same?

Answer 1

There are two forms of modern Greek; one is the language spoken by Greeks everyday, the other is a more "formal" Greek, still used for formal occasions, which is closer to ancient Greek - although not the same.

So no, neither forms of modern Greek is the same as ancient Greek.

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I' m afraid i have to correct you, my friend. This doesn't occure anymore in Greece. It used to happen too many years before, but not now. Modern Greek is one language and it' s the language that modern Greeks speak and write either in formal or informal occasions.

Now to answer to the main question, i have to say that the ancient Greek language have changed so much during the centuries that a modern Greek have to study it in order to understand it. Of course, one can read it and understand many words, but in order to conceive the exact meaning of the ancient texts, some studies are needed.

Answer 2

The answer depends on how far back you go. The 24-character alphabet used by Modern Greek was officially adopted by the city of Athens in 403 B.C. As a point of reference, the Athenian philosopher Plato was 25 years old (or so) in that year, so his works and the works of later authors would have been written in the current alphabet.

Before that time, there were versions of the alphabet with more or fewer characters. A few of the letters that did not survive include san, an alternative to sigma (for the sound 's'); digamma, which looked like a modern F and was used to write the sound 'w' in dialects that had it; and koppa, which looked like a modern Q (but with a vertical tail) and was used to write the sound 'k' before the vowels 'u' and 'o'. A few of these characters were dropped from the alphabet but continued to be used (like the other alphabetic characters) for writing numbers.

Answer 3

Greece is a noun we use to describe territory of the ethnic Greeks, who lived in over 2,000 independent city-states.. Greek is either the language or an adjective describing the peoples and the things associated with them.

Answer 4

Modern Greek is to Ancient Greek as modern English is to old English (try reading Beowulf) some of the words are the same but the grammar declinations and conjugation are different.

Answer 5

No. Romans spoke Latin and the Greek spoke Greek.

Answer 6

Ancient Greece would be the country. Greek would be the language.

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

To speak the same