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Articles about rising in Greek (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

athenian

'greek' is the definition.
(I know that Athenian is a type of greek)

'articles about rising' is the wordplay.
'articles' becomes 'a the' ('a' and 'the', indefinite and definite articles).
'about' becomes 'nain' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rising' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in a down clue, letters go up).
'nain' back-to-front is 'nian'.
'athe'+'nian'='ATHENIAN'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for athenian that I've seen before include "Inhabitant of Greece's capital" , "Inhabitant of Greek capital" , "Nationality of citizen of Greek capital" , "Timon, for instance" , "City dweller" .)

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