21st Century

• Greek Literature is the body of writing in the Greek Language.
• The Greek honor gods and goddesses because it was believed that universe was created by them.
• Greek Literature are famous for its epic and lyrics poetry as well as its drama, both tragedy and comedy.
• Greek Mythology is a set of stories about the gods and goddesses, heroes, and rituals of Ancient Greek.
• Ancient Greek Education

  • Athens
  • Sparta
• Athens - they learned basic things like reading, writing and math. Produce thinkers, people well-trained in arts and sciences, people prepared for peace or war
• Sparta - Focuses on Military Training.
• Plato the Greek Philosopher. His most famous work were “The Republic of Symposium”.
• Herodotus is the Greek Geographer from the Greek City Halicarnassus. He is considered by many as the “Father of History”. He wrote “THE HISTORIES"
• Euclid was a Father of Mathematician. Called as “The father of Geometry". Famous work is “The Elements”.
• Sophocles was one of the Athen’s great tragic playwrights. He is best known of his 123 dramas is “Oedipus the King
• Homer is the Greek Blind Poet. He was known for his two epic poems “Illiad” and “The Odyssey”.
• Zeus is the Supreme God. God of Sky. God of Thunder.
• Poseidon Brother of Zeus. God of Sea.
• Hades God of Underworld.
• Hera Queen of all gods and goddesses. Goddess of Marriage. Goddess of Birth.
• Aphrodite Goddess of Love and Beauty.
• Ares God of War.
• Athena Goddess of Wisdom and War.
• Artemis Goddess of chastity, hunt, moon, and the natural environment.
• Apollo God of sun, shepherd, music, poetry, and archery.
• Dionysus God of wine, wine-making, and grape cultivation.
• Hermes God of trade, travelers, sports and athletes.
• Hephaestus God of Fire and Blacksmith.
• Demeter Goddess of harvest, grains, and fertility of the earth.
• genre a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
• elements inherent constituent of all works of narrative fiction—a necessary feature any written or spoken narrative.
• structures how the author organizes the information within the text.
• Conventional Genre

  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
• Simile use to compare things using “like” or “as”
• Metaphor use to compare thing directly without using “like” or “as”
• Hyperbole used to exaggerate things
• Irony implies a distance between what is said and what is meant
• Personification compare an idea to a human like attributes
• Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
• Allusion a brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
• Creative Non-Fiction a literary piece is creatively presented or narrated but still observes the element of non-fiction - truth.
• Illustrated Novel The literary piece is presented with text and images.
• Graphic Novel Narratives in comic book format.
• Digi Fiction Fiction that is written for and read from a computer and can be web- or appbased (for tablets and smartphones) or accessed via CD-ROMs.