What we have chiefly to observe is that the difference is often greater in reality than it appears to be at first sight.
Article attic greek.
Attic greek has a definite article but no indefinite article.
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.
Without article self in nominative emphasizing the subject reflexive pronoun in oblique cases himself herself itself themselves in philosophy of an abstract idea by or in itself without article in oblique cases 3rd person personal pronoun he she it they with definite article same.
Thus ἡ πόλις hē pólis the city but πόλις pólis a city.
The definite article agrees with its associated noun in number gender and case.
Attic dialect ancient greek dialect that was the language of ancient athens.
Homeric and attic article.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens.
Linguists and grammarians have long since abandoned the idea that the greek article s main function is to definitize.
The article is more widely used in greek than the word the in english.
Its closest relative was the ionic dialect of euboea.
Of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard koine greek 4 596 words view diff exact match in snippet view article find links to article.