It is commonly accepted that the birth of the koine dialektos resulted from a process of evolution starting in the High Variety of the Attic dialect. However, to achieve a comprehensive overview of this successful process that reach the...
moreIt is commonly accepted that the birth of the koine dialektos resulted from a process of evolution starting in the High Variety of the Attic dialect. However, to achieve a comprehensive overview of this successful process that reach the Medieval Greek after the Roman Period and the landmark of Atticismus, we consider the creation of a new Common Language cannot be understood only from a sociolinguistic point of view. From the testimony of Herodotus (8.144.2), in which the fact of having a common language is included into τὸ Ἑλληνικόν, it is possible to follow a linguistic course in the frame of the development of a Greek Identity. From the Persian Wars to the conquests of Alexander we can guess in Greek sources evidences of a Language Policy in a Panhellenic line to explain this achievement.
