Articles about rising in Greek (8)
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" .)