Attic style
or Atticism is the style of oratory or prose writing associated with the
speeches of the great Attic (i.e. Athenian) orators of the 5th and 4th
centuries BCE, including Lysias and Demosthenes. Later Roman writers
distinguished the purity and simplicity of these Attic models from the
excessive artifice and ornamentation of the 'Asiatic' style that had since
developed among the Greeks in Asia Minor.