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Ancient Greek literature, together with the Hebrew Bible, provides the foundation for all of Western literature. In addition to history and philosophy, Ancient Greek literature is famous for its epic and lyric poetry as well as its drama, both tragedy and comedy. Ancient Greek tragedy remains among the highest literary and cultural achievements ...
A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry, tragedy, comedy, and history, Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspired, influenced, and challenged ...
Greek literature - Epic, Drama, Historiography: Almost all of the great mass of Hellenistic prose—and later prose, historical, scholarly, and scientific—has perished. Among historians Polybius (c. 200–c. 118 bc), the most outstanding, has survived in a fragmentary condition. Present at Rome when it was succumbing to the first influences of Greek literature, he wrote mainly of events of ...
The ancient Greek epic exemplifies the cycle of an oral tradition. Originating in the late Mycenaean period, the Greek epic outlasted the downfall of the typically heroic-age culture ( c. 1100 bce) and maintained itself through the “Dark Age” to reach a climax in the Homeric poems…. Read More. folk literature.
Hesiod. Hesiod lived in Greece during the eighth century B.C. His two most important contributions are ‘Works and Days’, and the ‘Theogony’. In ‘Works and Days’, Hesiod divided time into five ages. Depiction of Cyclops from Hesiod’s Theogony. Hesiod was a Greek epic poet who flourished in Boeotia around 700 B.C.
Actor on a Sicilian red-figured calyx- krater (c. 350–340 BC). Ancient Greek comedy ( Ancient Greek: κωμῳδία, romanized : kōmōidía) was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play ). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old ...
Ancient Greek society placed considerable emphasis on literature and, according to many, the whole Western literary tradition began there, with the epic poems of Homer.. In addition to the invention of the epic and lyric forms of poetry, though, the Greeks were also essentially responsible for the invention of drama, and they produced masterpieces of both tragedy and comedy that are still ...
