Fact of the day

The English word attic has its etymology in Attia: the Greek region where Athens was and is (tenses for AndyP). When Ancient Greek aritifcats began to be discovered and looted, the connection was made between the part of a home where one would store and forget old and unused pieces of family furniture, pictures, books, etc., and this part of the world where the history of Western civilization was "stored" and forgotten about.

Phone posting, Mark? ;)

It's Attica (or Attika) in a Latinised version of the name, Attiki or Αττική in (Ancient and Modern) Greek.

I do like 'aritifcats' and almost wish you'd typed 'aperitifcats'.