Greek Literature

• what are ancient greeks also called?

  noble greeks
• where does ancient greeks excel in?

  architecture, philosophy, sculpture,

  literature
• Barbarism


  against contemporary

  standards
• what are the countries that wants to destroy greece?

  Egyptians, Indians, Persians, Vikings,

  Germans, Macedonians
• what is the democracy developed by ancient greeks?


  “Government by the people, of the

  people, and for the people”
• why does the neighbors of the greeks doesn't understand them?

  because greeks have laws, while they have masters such as kings, queens
• who is the great traveler and the father of history

  Herodotus
• who is the persian queen

  Atossa
• Homer


  epic poet
• Pindar

  lyric poet
• who are the 3 great tragic poets?

  Aeschylus

  Sophocles

  Euripides
• who commended painting of

  Helen of troy?

  Polygnotus
• what characterestic does greek art has that differs from other art?

  freedom and naturality
• who is the God messenger that likes to break sad and painful news?

  Hermes
• what are the two parts of literature?

  pose and poetry
• poetry

  written in lines and stanzas and

  uses figures of speech, types of

  imagery
• prose


  written in narrative,

  sentences, paragraphs
• what are the 3 periods of greek literature?

  Pre-Homeric Age, Athenian Period, The Period of Decline
• Pre-Homeric Age


  extends from the

  remote antiquity to the age of

  Herodotus
• Athenian Period

  Athenian Period to the

  Golden Age of Pericles, extends from

  the Age of Herodotus to the death of

  Alexander the Great
• The Period of Decline

  from the death of ATG to the

  enslavement of the Greeks by Rome

  and extends to
• what are the qualities of Greek literature?

  Permanence and Universality, Essentially full of Artistry, Originality,