Attic

Japanese: Attic
Attic

...The rhythm of the epic poem, which has six lines of // (long, short, short) (the sixth line is // and the two short lines are changed to one long), was inherited by Roman poets as well as that of lyric poetry seen in the poems of the female poet Sappho of Lesbos, and established the classical tradition of European poetry. Classical Greek was perfected by the excellent writers of the Attic dialect, which included Athens, the political center of Greece. The works of the three great tragic poets, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, consist of a verse part sung by the chorus and dialogue, and are a wonderful fusion of the poetic language tradition since Homer and prose elements. ...

From [Koine]

…meaning 〈common dialect〉. In ancient Greece, as Athens became the political and cultural center in the 5th century BCE, its language, the Attic dialect, came to represent Greek beyond the other dialects. Then, with the addition of the Ionian dialect, Ionic, a common language was formed, excluding the form unique to Attica. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Attic" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…またその//(長,短,短)6脚(6脚目は//で二つの短は一つの長に変えられる)を1行とする叙事詩のリズムは,レスボス島の女流詩人サッフォーの詩にみられる抒情詩のそれなどとともにそのままローマの詩人によって継承され,ヨーロッパの詩の古典的伝統を築いた。 古典ギリシア語は,政治的中心となったアテナイを含むアッティカ方言Atticの優れた作家たちによって完成された。アイスキュロス,ソフォクレス,エウリピデスの三大悲劇詩人の作品は,コロスの歌う詩のパートと対話からなり,ここにホメロス以来の詩語の伝統と散文的な要素がみごとに融合している。…

【コイネー】より

…〈共通語common dialect〉の意。古代ギリシアでは前5世紀にアテナイが政治・文化の中心になるとともに,その言語であるアッティカ方言Atticが,他の方言を抑えてギリシア語を代表する位置を占めるにいたった。そしてこれにイオニア方言Ionicを加え,アッティカに固有の形を除いて,一つの共通語が形成された。…

※「Attic」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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