Attic Greek Vs Koine Greek
It will make reading authors who have more of classical style ala luke so much easier.
Attic greek vs koine greek. 5 when comparing the two greek languages koine greek was much more practical than academic. Having studied classical i e. Modern greek is basically based on demotic greek and also has traits of katharevousa. All you need to learn are a couple distinctives and some different vocab.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic. The view accepted by most scholars today was given by the greek linguist georgios hatzidakis who showed that despite the composition of the four the stable nucleus of koine greek is attic. Koine is a breeze compared to attic. Robertson characterizes koiné greek as a later development of classical greek that is the dialect spoken in attica the region around athens during the classical period.
To all intents and purposes the vernacular κοινή is the later vernacular attic with normal development under historical environment created by alexander s conquests. As someone who is almost a year through with attic greek i recommend learning it first. 2 koine greek was developed from the attic dialect. 3 the grammar and pronunciation of modern greek has traces in koine greek.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule. Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament. 4 there are some differences in the grammar between koine greek and modern greek. From what i know attic greek has a more complex syntax and morphology while koine greek is somewhat simpler rarely using or not using at all some verb tenses or some resources of a more cultivated language.