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Roman Empire. Classical antiquity, historical period spanning from the output of ancient Greek author Homer in the 8th century bce to the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th century ce. It encompassed Greco-Roman culture, which played a major role in the Mediterranean sphere of influence and in the creation of Western civilization, shaping ...
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as ...
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The earliest known Greek writings are Mycenaean, written in the Linear B syllabary on clay tablets. These documents contain prosaic records largely concerned with trade (lists, inventories, receipts, and so on); no real literature has been discovered. Several theories have been advanced to explain this curious absence. One is that Mycenaean literat...
By 338 B.C.E. all of the Greek city-states except Sparta had been conquered by Philip II of Macedon. Philip's son, Alexander the Great, greatly extended his father's conquests. In so doing he inaugurated what is called the Hellenistic Age. Alexander's conquests were in the East, and Greek culture shifted first in that direction. Athens lost its pre...
While the transition from city-state to empire affected philosophy a great deal, shifting the emphasis from political theory to personal ethics, Greek letters continued to flourish both under the Successors (especially the Ptolemies) and under Roman rule. Romans with literary or rhetorical talent looked to Greek models, and Greek literature of all ...
Virtually all of Western literature has been influenced by Ancient Greek literature. Its influence is so ubiquitous that virtually every major artist, from William Shakespeare to James Joyce is in its debt. In addition to modern literature, its influence has been felt in other ways. The foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis originate in the...
Beye, Charles Rowan. 1987. Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801418747.Easterling, P.E., and B.M.W. Knox (eds.). 1985. The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek literature: Volume 1. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521210429.Flacelière, Robert. 1964. A Literary History of Greece. Translated by Douglas Garman. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co. OCLC 308150Gutzwiller, Kathryn. 2007. A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell. ISBN 0631233229.May 10, 2013 · The period known as “archaic” Greece begins around 800 years before the birth of Christ. This is the era of the epic poets Homer and Hesiod, and of the lyric poets Archilochus, Ibycus, Alcaeus and Sappho. What we call the _Classical_ period emerges around 500 B.C., the period of the great dramatists Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, the ...
Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (eighth-seventh century B.C.E. ), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century C.E. ), ending ...
Oct 13, 2022 · The Iliad. The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter. Set during the Trojan War (the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states), it tells of the battles and events surrounding a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
The earliest period of classical antiquity takes place before the background of gradual re-appearance of historical sources following the Bronze Age collapse.The 8th and 7th centuries BC are still largely proto-historical, with the earliest Greek alphabetic inscriptions appearing in the first half of the 8th century.
