Ancient Greek is the form of Greek used during the periods of time spanning c. the 9th – 6th century BC (known as Archaic) c. the 5th – 4th century BC (Classical) and c. the 3rd century BC – 6th century AD (Hellenistic) in ancient Greece and the ancient world. It was predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek.
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