Atticism (meaning "favouring
Attica", the region that includes
Athens in
Greece) was a
rhetorical movement that began in the first quarter of the 1st century BC; it may also refer to the wordings and phrasings typical of this movement, in contrast with various contemporary forms of Koine
Greek (both literary and vulgar), which continued to evolve in directions guided by the common usages of
Hellenistic Greek.