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Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0-7456-2792-7. Beye, Charles Rowan (1987). Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-1874-7. C. A. Trypanis (1981). Greek Poetry from Homer to Seferis. University of Chicago Press. Anonymous, 1780. The History and Amours of Rhodope ...
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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 ...
A. Abron (ancient Greece) Adrianus; Aesop; Alciphron; Alypius of Alexandria; Anaxicrates; Androtion (writer) Antagoras of Rhodes; Antidamas; Antigonus (sculptor)
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 the Preclassical, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. Preclassical Greek literature primarily revolved around myths and include ...
No ancient Greek term is known for the genre of prose fiction. Modern writers in English may refer to these works as "novels" or "romances", although those terms were invented for medieval and modern works. [5] In other European languages, terms cognate with "romance" are used in French, German, Italian and Portuguese, while novela is used in ...
Solon of Athens (c. 638 BCE – c. 558 BCE) was a famous legislator and reformer from Athens, framing the laws that shaped the Athenian democracy. Cleobulus, tyrant of Lindos (fl. c. 600 BCE), reported as either the grandfather or father-in-law of Thales; Myson of Chenae (6th century BCE); and
Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now generally regarded as two: Oppian of Corycus (or Anabarzus) in Cilicia, who flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius; Oppian of Apamea (or Pella) in Syria. His extant poem ...