LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Greek: Classical Greek
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Unlike the old ANSI schemes for classical Greek and other non-Latin alphabets, the user can change the font without losing the underlying data. If you don't know what Unicode is, see some of the websites below, and the Unicode site:
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By the 16th cent. B.C., Greek-speaking people were established in Greece, probably having come as invaders from the north. In antiquity there were a number of dialects of the Greek language, the most important of which were Aeolic, Arcadian, Attic, Cyprian, Doric, and Ionic. Ancient Greek was prevalent in the Balkan peninsula, the Greek islands, W Asia Minor, S Italy, and Sicily. Because of the political and cultural importance of Athens in the classical period of Greek history, the Athenian dialect, Attic, became dominant. From Attic there developed an idiom called the koinē, which means “common†or “common to all the people†and which became a standard form of Ancient Greek.
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Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet since approximately the 9th century BC. In classical Greek, as in classical Latin, only upper-case letters existed. The lower-case Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes to permit a faster, more convenient cursive writing style with the use of ink and quill. The variant of the alphabet in use today is essentially the late Ionic variant, introduced for writing classical Attic in 403 BC.
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The keyboard is compatible with the old “BetaCode” Greek typing system. One of the main advantages of Unicode is the ability to exchange documents with others without their needing special proprietary translating software, something that was not possible for classical Greek before: all that's needed is a standard Unicode program.
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