Classical Greek

Ancient Greek

Spoken by:	extinct (Evolved into modern Greek).
Spoken in:	Greece and surrounding areas as a lingua franca in the Hellenic period
Language family:	Indo-European

Ancient Greek consists of three stages:

• Archaic Greek (c. 9th–6th centuries BC);
• Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC);
• Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC–6th century AD).