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The Greek alphabet. Part 1 Ancient Greek - from Mycenae to the RomanEmpire: Ancient Greek and its dialects; Classical Greek - official andliterary "standards"; the rise of Attic; Greek in the Hellenisticworld; Greek in the Roman Empire; spoken Koine in the Roman period.Part 2 Byzantium - from Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror:historical prelude; Greek in the Byzantine Empire - the major issues;Byzantine belles lettres; middle styles in Byzantium; spoken Greek inthe Byzantine Empire; texts in the "vernacular". Part 3 From theOttoman Empire to the European Union: Ottoman rule and the war ofindependence; spoken Greek in the Ottoman Empire; written Greek in theTurkish period; the history of the modern Greek state; the "languagequestion" and its resolution.