Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in Ancient Greek from the oldest surviving written works in the

Greek language until approximately the fifth century AD and the rise of the Byzantine Empire. The Greek language arose from the proto-Indo-European language, though roughly one-third of its words cannot be derived from various reconstructions of the tongue. A number of alphabets and syllabaries had been used to render Greek, but surviving Greek literature was written in a Phoenician-derived alphabet that arose primarily in Greek Ionia and was fully adopted by Athens by the fifth century BC.

-byzantine empire (timeline) 667 BC : Ancient city of Byzantium(future Constantinople) is founded. 330AD: Constantine makes Constantinople his capital 395: Empire permanently split into Eastern and Westernhalves, following the death of Theodosius I. 527: Justinian 1 crowned emperor 532-537: justinian builds church of hagia sophia 533-554: Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the Vandals and Ostrogoths. 568: The Lombard invasion results in the loss of most of Italy 634-641: Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well -phoenician alphabhet-is also calleed Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1200 BC was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, orabjad Greek lonia-Ionia (Ancient Greek or , Turkish: yonya) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest zmir, which was historically Smyrna. Athens- (/nz/;[2] Modern Greek: , Athna; IPA: [aina]; Katharevousa: , Athinai; Ancient Greek: , Athnai) is the capital and largest city ofGreece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3,400 years Proto indo- european languages The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of theIndo-European languages, spoken by the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
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