Aeolic forms: Alcaeus and Sopho (600BC). Theocritus’ idylls. Doric forms: Pindar (522BC circa), some of Theocritus’ bucolic poetry. There is no Doric or Aeolic literary prose.
Ionic: Dialect of Homer and Hesiod (before 700BC). Herodotus (484-425) wrote in New Ionic. Hippocrates (born 460) lso. So did Archilochus, lyric poet (7007-650BC).
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Attic (kindred to Ionic): Great writers of 5th-4th centuries during the supremacy of Athens. People who used it include: Aeschylus (525-456), Sophocles (496-406), Euripides (480-406), Aristophanes (450-385), Thucydides (d.396), Xenophon (434), and Plato (427-347).
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“The present day language of the Greek peasant is still organically the same as that of the age of Demosthenes.”
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