Classical Greece

This is why you shouldn't use AI for this kind of thing. For one thing, what's the point of using it if you don't even trust it so you have to ask on reddit? Not that you should trust, but that's precisely the problem. I also just find it annoying and even impolite that you want your question answered but it must be made in reference to your AI search. Why couldn't you have asked on reddit and asked the AI and compared the two? (Not that you should be using AI for this kind of question!) Instead of asking someone else not only to answer your question (have you ever heard of google or wikipedia, much less a book?), they also have to weigh a large language model's answer for you, because you're incapable of doing any thinking at all? The AI is correct if there were such a thing as Classical Greek, but there isn't because during the period of Classical Greece, there were several dialects. The dialect your probably thinking of is Attic Greek which was spoken during the Classical period in the region of Attica (the area around Athens) and had a significant literary prestige. It forms much of the basis for Koine which was spoken in the Hellenic world in the wake of Alexander's conquests, but Ancient Greek also includes not only the other forms of Greek spoken in Classical Greece but also Koine, since it was spoken in Antiquity. More on reddit.com

There are many reasons, mostly related to money. Athens was not a particularly large or important city prior to the first Persian invasion. Just before that happened, they discovered silver mines that suddenly made Athens into a very wealthy city. The Battle of Marathon helped raise their prestige. Athens deviated from the traditional city-state model by including all of Attica in their political body. This increased their population, because they considered all of Attica to be "Athenian" rather than just the city itself. Following the second Persian invasion, Athens led the creation of a powerful navy and the so-called "Delian League." At first, member states paid money to Athens so that Athens could finance their powerful navy and keep the Persians away. In time, however, this turned into an Athenian Empire. The Athenians didn't use all of that money for maintaining their army. They started to spend it on themselves. Over time, the Athenians started to see their partner states as being subordinate, and their contributions were something the Athenians were "owed." So now you have huge revenue from the Attican silver mines PLUS huge revenue from the league states. All this money meant Athenians did not have to work very much. They could buy servants and slaves to do their work, while the wealthier men sat around debating philosophy and government, or spending that Delian League money on fancy statues and temples. They became a center for Greek art and innovation because they could afford to. "BUT..." you are probably saying, "Why are you talking about Athens when there was so much more to Greece? They also had people like the Spartans and the Thebans, right?" Most of the innovation we associate with Classical Greece are specifically Athenian achievements. The Athenians also wrote a lot of stuff down, which is why we have Athenian histories and literature. The Spartans and Thebans (for example) did not leave behind as much writing as the Athenians, so we know less about their cities. More on reddit.com

The art professor at Cambridge taught us to ask, "Can it move? Can it feel? Can it think?" By the Classical period Greeks had learnt how to carve figures that looked as if they could move. It was the Hellenistic period that discovered how make them look as though they could feel and think. That takes creativity! More on reddit.com

Well for one, the political system was very different, I can try and give a basic overview Archaic: This period of time follows the mycenean period, where small areas were rules by a king (basileus). This developed further in archaic times with the formation of so-called „poleis“, city-states. The best examples are Athens and Sparta. Sparta was ruled by two kings in a feudal system and Athens was a „tyrannis“, ruled by a member if the upper class (Peisistratos). Greece as we know it didn‘t exist and there wasn‘t much that the states had in common. You were spartan or athenian, but not greek. An important aspect was the founding of colonies. A city would send 200 young men to found a colony, for example in southern Italy. This was in parts because there was not enough farm land so that every son of a family could get his part - their younger sons were sent to war or to found a colony. Classic: With the menace of the Persian Empire to the east, the cities were forced to bond together. With the victory at Marathon, a new sense of community was established. There was now a feeling of „we, the greek people“ against the Persian enemy. Athens (and some other poleis) became democratic with a (limited) voting system. Athens became a centre of arts and philosophy, at least, until a war with sparta began, because of a conflict in some colonies. The war endet pretty badly for Athens, shifting the power balance at the time. Hellenistic: Philip II of Macedonia was the one who profited the most from these wars between the Greek cities. He conquered big parts of Greece and his son, Alexander the Great continued to expand the new Macedonian Empire. He took Egypt and Persia and continued to go east. When he died (the beginning of the hellenistic period) his successors divided the empire between them. But the Greek cities spent a long period under „enemy“ ruling, which impacted society. Athens would never return to it‘s former glory. More on reddit.com