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'''Greek''' is the most ancient continuously written language in human history. It dates as a written language from 800 BC as the language of [[Homer]] and continues continuously to the present day, as four to five different languages through time.
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'''Greek''' is the most ancient continuously written language in human history. It dates as a written language from 800 BC as the language of [[Homer]] and continues continuously to the present day, as four to five different language forms through time.
    
Homeric Greek, or simply ''Homeric'' is the earliest literary language, a form of Attic-Ionic. There is late Archaic Greek, which follows Homeric, and culminates in Classical Greek, with [[Aeschylus]] and [[Sophocles]], and then later Classical Greek, with [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], into the plays of [[Euripides]] and [[Aristophanes]].  
 
Homeric Greek, or simply ''Homeric'' is the earliest literary language, a form of Attic-Ionic. There is late Archaic Greek, which follows Homeric, and culminates in Classical Greek, with [[Aeschylus]] and [[Sophocles]], and then later Classical Greek, with [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], into the plays of [[Euripides]] and [[Aristophanes]].  
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