Greek classics
Homer's literary tradition
The Greek classics are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, drama, and poetry—texts like Homer's *Iliad* and *Odyssey*, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, the dialogues of Plato, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides.
These works, produced roughly between the 8th century BCE and the 4th century BCE, shaped Western thought and remain central to liberal arts education: She studied the Greek classics in college.
The term sometimes extends to Greek art, architecture, and sculpture from the same period.
- HomerAncient Greek epic composer
- PlatoGreek philosopher, academy founder
- IliadAncient Greek war epic
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- HerodotusAncient Greek historiographer
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- world literatureworld literature, French novels, American literature, Russian novels, Japanese fiction
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- literary heritageShakespeare, Homer, Dante, Tolstoy, Dickens
- classical educationLatin, grammar, logic, trivium, rhetoric
- classical literatureHomer, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Plato
- Dark AcademiaLatin, literature, Oxford, Cambridge, tweed
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Recent centuries' written works
contemporary fiction · medieval literature · Renaissance literature · Victorian literature · postmodern literature
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