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Classical Greek

noun

The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia. Synonyms: Attic, Ionic, Ionic dialect.

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... which closely approaches a straight line, until it curves inward under the abacus (Fig. 51); in the post-classical period it is low and sometimes quite conical (Fig. 60). In general, the degeneracy of post-classical Greek architecture is in nothing more marked than in the loss of those subtle curves which characterize the best Greek work. Other differences must be learned from ...

— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell

Words linked to "Classical Greek" : ionic, Ionic dialect, Ancient Greek