the histroy of greece can be traced back to the stone age. greeks were the of the frist and one of the oldest langudes in histroy It is also spoken around the world in the diaspora of Greeks who have emigrated for political or far more commonly economic reasons to all of the world. However culturally its importance is disproportionate. As the language of classical Greek philosophy and literature and later as the language of the Christian Gospels and the early Church it has profoundly shaped Western thought.Like any other language Greek has evolved over the ages, but Modern Greek can justifiably trace its pedigree back through the Athens of Pericles to the Trojan wars and indeed to some of European mans first attempts at recording his ideas in writing. This very history has been a deep influence on the way Greeks of today view their language and incidentally makes it very difficult to precis the history of Greek in the compass of a short essay such as this.