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    Greek literature dates back to 800 BC and includes works from ancient Greek to modern times. The earliest literature was oral and focused on myths and legends. Poems were meant to be sung or recited since writing was not widely known. The major periods of Greek literature are: Preclassical, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman. Preclassical literature revolved around the epic poems of Homer including the Iliad and Odyssey. The Classical period saw the rise of drama and history works. Tragedies and comedies emerged around 600 BC and playwrights included Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

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    Greek literature dates back to 800 BC and includes works from ancient Greek to modern times. The earliest literature was oral and focused on myths and legends. Poems were meant to be sung or recited since writing was not widely known. The major periods of Greek literature are: Preclassical, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman. Preclassical literature revolved around the epic poems of Homer including the Iliad and Odyssey. The Classical period saw the rise of drama and history works. Tragedies and comedies emerged around 600 BC and playwrights included Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

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    Greek literature dates back to 800 BC and includes works from ancient Greek to modern times. The earliest literature was oral and focused on myths and legends. Poems were meant to be sung or recited since writing was not widely known. The major periods of Greek literature are: Preclassical, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman. Preclassical literature revolved around the epic poems of Homer including the Iliad and Odyssey. The Classical period saw the rise of drama and history works. Tragedies and comedies emerged around 600 BC and playwrights included Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

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    GREEK LITERATURE

    Greek literature dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek
    literature of today. All ancient Greek literature was to some degree oral in nature, and the earliest
    literature was completely so. The Greeks created poetry before making use of writing for literary
    purposes. Poems created in the Preclassical period were meant to be sung or recited (writing was little
    known before the 7th century BC). Most poems focused on myths, legends that were part folktale and
    part religion. Tragedies and comedies emerged around 600 BC.

    Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest
    surviving written works until works from approximately the fifth century AD. This time period is divided
    into these periods:

    1: Preclassical

    2: Classical

    3: Hellenistic

    4: Roman periods.

    Preclassical Greek literature primarily revolved around myths and include the works of Homer; the Iliad
    and the Odyssey. At the beginning of Greek literature stand the works of Homer; the Iliad and the
    Odyssey. Though dates of composition vary, these works were fixed around 800 BC or after. Another
    significant figure was the poet Hesiod. His two surviving works are Works and Days and Theogony.

    The Classical period saw the dawn of drama and history. During the classical period, many of the genres
    of western literature became more prominent. Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams;
    dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; histories, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics,
    and philosophical treatises all arose in this period.[4]Three philosophers are especially notable:

    1: Socrates

    2: Plato

    3: Aristotle

    During the Roman era, significant contributions were made in a variety of subjects, including history,
    philosophy, and the sciences.

    The two major lyrical poets were Sappho and Pindar. Of the hundreds of tragedies written and
    performed during this time period, only a limited number of plays survived. These plays are authored by

    1: Aeschylus (e.g. Orestia, Agamemnon)

    2: Sophocles (e.g. Electra, Oedipus rex, Antigone)

    3: Euripides (e.g. Medea)

    The comedy arose from a ritual in honor of Dionysus. These plays were full of obscenity, abuse, and
    insult. The surviving plays by Aristophanes are a treasure trove(delightful things) of comic presentation.
    What is mythology?

    ---->Mythology (from the Greek mythos for story-of-the-people, and logos for word or speech, so the
    spoken story of a people) is the study and interpretation of often sacred tales or fables of a culture
    known as myths or the collection of such stories which deal with various aspects of the human
    condition: good and evil; the meaning of suffering; human origins; the origin of place-names, animals,
    cultural values, and traditions; the meaning of life and death; the afterlife; and the gods or a god. Myths
    express the beliefs and values about these subjects held by a certain culture.

    What is an Epic?

    ---->An epic is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single
    person or a group of persons. Elements that typically distinguish epics include superhuman deeds,
    fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions.

    ---->An epic is a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical
    hero. Iliad and the Odyssey are epics.

    What is Tragedy?

    ---->A play which deals with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the
    downfall of the main character. For example, oedipus rex, Shakespearen tragedies etc.

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