Greece Attic Confederacy

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Greece attic confederacy.

Greek attic following the greek victory over the persians in 479 b c athens formed a naval confederacy with other greek cities around the aegean sea. The southern tip of the peninsula known as laurion was. Or the attic peninsula is a historical region that encompasses the city of athens the capital of greece it is a peninsula projecting into the aegean sea bordering on boeotia to the north and megaris to the west. Confederates in the attic by tony horwitz validates the significance of the civil war in that it stresses its lasting effect on the american psyche.

αττική ancient greek attikḗ or attikī ancient greek. The persians found the ionians difficult to rule eventually settling for sponsoring a tyrant in each ionian city. In ancient greek the name of the city was ἀθῆναι athênai pronounced atʰɛ ːnai in classical attic a plural in earlier greek such as homeric greek the name had been current in the singular form though as ἀθήνη athḗnē. The greco persian wars had their roots in the conquest of the greek cities of asia minor and particularly ionia by the achaemenid persian empire of cyrus the great shortly after 550 bc.

While greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants this was a form of arbitrary. The koine dialect had its foundations in the dominance of athens in the fifth century bc delian league in which the athenian attic dialect was imposed upon the other members of the confederacy as a lingua franca. After this attic greek began to be used as a language of trade then as a common language for military expeditions which. Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.

Gradually however it became an empire exacting annual tribute for the benefit of athens alone.