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    GREEK

    LITERATURE
    GREEKS
     GREECE
     Graecia  Graikoi

     Hellenes = Hellas

     Formed the foundation of much of Western


    culture today.
     Government, Philosophy, Science, Mathematics,
    Art, Literature, Sports
    CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE

     Minoans Civilizations
     Mycenaean Civilizations
     Dark Age
     Greek Civilization
    PERIODS OF ANCIENT GREECE

     ARCHAIC PERIOD
     CLASSICAL PERIOD

     HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    ARCHAIC PERIOD
     This period ran from the start of Greek civilization in
    800 BC to the introduction of Democracy in 508 BC.

    CLASSICAL PERIOD
     Athens was governed by a democracy and great
    philosophers. Also, the wars between Sparta and Athens
    were during this time. This period ended with the rise
    and then death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.
    HELLENISTIC PERIOD
     The Hellenistic period lasted from the death of
    Alexander the Great until 31 BC when Rome defeated
    Egypt at the Battle of Actium.
    GREEK
    LITERATURE
    GREEK LITERATURE
     Greek writers are responsible for the introduction of
    such genres as poetry, tragedy, comedy, and
    western philosophy to the world.

     These Greeks authors were born not only on the soil of


    their native Greece but also in Asia Minor (Ionia), the
    islands of the Aegean , Sicily, and southern Italy.
    GREEK LITERATURE

     ARCHAIC PERIOD
     CLASSICAL PERIOD

     HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    ARCHAIC PERIOD
    ARCHAIC PERIOD
    HOMER

     Iliad and Odyssey


    ARCHAIC PERIOD
    HESIOD

     Theogony
     Works and Days
     The Shield of Herakles
     Catalogue of Women
    ARCHAIC PERIOD
    SAPPHO

     Ode to Aphrodite
     Tithonus
    CLASSICAL
    PERIOD
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    AESCHYLUS
     Agamemnon
     Prometheus Bound
     Persians
     Seven against Thebes
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    SOPHOCLES

     Oedipus Rex
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    EURIPIDES

     Hippolytus

     Trojan Women
     Orestes
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    ARISTOPHANES

     Knights
     Lysistrata
     Thesmophoriazusae
     The Clouds
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    HERODOTUS

     A World of Heroes
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    THUCYDIDES

     History of Peloponnesian
    War
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    DEMOSTHENES
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    SOCRATES

     Protagoras
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    PLATO

     Symposium

     The Republic
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    ARISTOTLE

     Nichomachean Ethics

     Physics
     Poetics
    CLASSICAL PERIOD
    ALEXANDER THE GREAT
    HELLENISTIC
    PERIOD
    HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    CALLIMACHUS

     Aetia
    HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    THEOCRITUS

     Pastoral Poetry
    HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    APOLLONIUS RHODIUS

     Argonautica
    HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    PLUTARCH

     Parallel Lives

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