2.1 GREEK MYTHOLOGY/LITERATURE

• Greek Literature - These are writings composed in greece
• Ancient Greek Literature - This is the oldest surviving written works
• Ancient greek literature are composed of 4 types:

  • Pre-classical
  • Classical
  • Hellenistic
  • Roman age
• Pre classical refers to the beginning of greek literature, where stands the 2 famous works of homer, illiad and odyssey.
• Pre classical refers to the beginning of greek literature, where stands the 2 famous works of homer, illiad and odyssey.
• Classical Period - In this period, genres from the west are prominant, and playwrights are emerging.
• Hellenistic Period - This is the rising of greek poetry
• Attic Age - This period was the most glorious in ancient history
• Alexandria - A city in egypt founded by alexander
• Homer - Greek blind poet
• Homer composed both Illiad and Odyssey
• Sophocles - Dramatist who composed 123 plays but only 7 survived
• Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.
• Euclid's main work is "The Elements" which is used in mathematics.
• Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
• Aristophanes - Playwright of comedies
• Europides - was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens.
• Athens had to be educated to belong in greek society
• Spartans - For them, reading and writing is unimportant. They are trained for battle
• Greece comes from the Latin word "Graceia"
• Greece comes from the Latin word "Graceia"
• Graceia comes from the greek word "Graikoi"
• The original Greek Name was, and still is, "Hellas"
• Hellas means "The land of the Helens"
• Ancient Greek Literature is Literature before AD 350
• Hellenistic Period is where the translation of the old testament into Greek was completed.
• In Hellenistic period where the old testament was translated, it is said that there was 72 scholars who did the work.
• Byzantine - It is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian Civilization on the common foundation of the Roman Political System
• Byzantine's 4 different elements:

  
  

  • Greek
  • Roman
  • Christian
  • Oriental
• Byzantine - Encyclopedia and Chronicles arose from this period.
• Different Ages of Ancient Greek Literature

  • Homeric Age
  • Attic Age
  • Hellenic Age
• The Homeric Age - This age marked the creation of the greek epics, the odyssey and the illiad.
• The Hellenic Age - The literary prominence passed by athens to alexandria, a city in egypt founded by alexander.
• Alexandria became the metropolis of the Hellenistic World
• Masters of Modern greek Letters:

  
  

  • Seferis
  • Elytis
• In general, 20th century greek literature reflects the evolution of european modernism.
• Plato's 2 most famous works:

  • The Republic
  • Symposium
• Until age of 6, boys were taught by their mothers or by a male slave.
• Girls were not allowed to go to school.