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Erotokritos and Erophile by Georgios Hortatzis constitute classic examples of Greek Renaissance literature and are considered to be the most important works of Cretan literature. It remains a popular work to this day, largely due to the music that accompanies it when it is publicly recited.
Detail of clay group with mythological scene from the Theban cycle, from the area of temple A at Pyrgi, mid-fifth century BC.. The Theban Cycle (Greek: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which tells the mythological history of the Boeotian city of Thebes. [1]
Greek literature (Greek: Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία) dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. 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.
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 ...
Ditto (/ ˈ d ɪ t oʊ / ⓘ), known in Japan as Metamon (Japanese: メタモン), is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon media franchise.First introduced in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue, it was created by the design team as a tribute to the pop culture yellow smiley face ideogram, and its design finalized by Ken Sugimori.
Homer greatly influenced Greek literature as a whole. [4] Plato refers to the two gates in his dialogue Charmides: Socrates: "Listen then," I said, "to my dream, to see whether it comes through horn or through ivory." [5] A reference to the Odyssean image also appears in the late (c. AD 400) epic poet Nonnus:
Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial evidence. Divination is a traditional set of methods of consulting divinity to obtain prophecies (theopropia) about specific circumstances defined beforehand.
The literate upper classes of Ancient Rome were increasingly Hellenized in their culture during the 3rd century BC. [6] [7] [8]Emperor Julian. Among Romans the career of Titus Quinctius Flamininus (died 174 BC), who appeared at the Isthmian Games in Corinth in 196 BC and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek states, was fluent in Greek, stood out, according to Livy, as a great admirer of Greek ...