Greek literature
Homer's cultural tradition
Greek literature encompasses writings in the Greek language from ancient times to the present.
Ancient Greek literature—Homer's epics, Athenian tragedy, Platonic dialogues—established foundational forms of Western poetry, drama, philosophy, and history.
The tradition continues through Byzantine religious texts, modern poetry, and contemporary fiction.
She specialized in Greek literature from the Hellenistic period.
- AristophanesAncient Greek comic dramatist
- EuripidesGreek tragic dramatist
- AeschylusFather of tragedy
- HomerAncient Greek epic composer
- Trojan WarLegendary Greek-versus-Troy conflict
oral tradition · Sophocles · Plato · Socratic dialogue · Lucian · Aristotle · Herodotus · Thucydides · Plutarch · tragedy · tragic hero · muse · epic · ode · scroll · chorus · rhetoric · oracle
- Modern GreeceConstantine I, bouzouki, taverna, ouzo, name days
- Roman GreeceCorinth, Roman conquest, Roman rule, Roman governors, proconsuls
- Alexandrian scholarshipEratosthenes, philology, literary commentary, Apollonius, emendation
- GreeceAcropolis, Parthenon, Athens, Hellenic, Zeus
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- ancient GreeceAthens, Sparta, Zeus, Parthenon, Acropolis
classical civilization origin
Greek literatureRoman literature
Ancient Italy's written works
Latin literature · Virgil · Cicero · Ovid