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Encyclopedia - Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Literature - Ancient Greek Literature
Greek literature - Poetry. Achaeus of Eretria Agathon Alcman Alcaeus Alexander Aetolus Anacreon Anser Antimachus Anyte of Tegea Apollo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Literature - Ancient Greek Literature Before Ad 300
Greek literature - Classical Greek. Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in Ancient Greek from the oldest surviving wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia - The Oresteia
The Oresteia is a trilogy of tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, written by Aeschylus. It is the only surviving ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristophanes: Encyclopedia - Aristophanes
Aristophanes (c. 448 BC-380 BC; Greek ΄Αριστοφανης) was a Greek comic dramatist. The place and even the exact date of his bir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Romance: Encyclopedia - Alexander Romance
The Alexander Romance is any of several collections of legends concerning the mythical exploits of Alexander the Great. The earliest vers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - Agamemnon
The Oresteia - Introduction. Agamemnon details the return of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War to his death. Waiting at hom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Society
The distinguishing features of ancient Greek society were the division between free and slave, the differing roles of men and women, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Romance: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Romance - Li Romans D'alixandre: Alexander In 12th Century French Literature
Attributed to French clergyman Alexandre de Bernay (also known as Alexandre de Pâris), the Roman d'Alexandre (Li romans d'Alixandre) is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexandros Papadiamantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexandros Papadiamantis - His Work
Papadiamantis' longest works were the serialized novels "The Gypsy Girl," "The Emigrant," and "Merchants of Nations." These were adventur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek: Encyclopedia - Greek
The noun Greek refers to: Synonymous to Grecian; a native or inhabitant of Greece (Ελλάδα), or a person of Greek descent. - main a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeric Hymns: Encyclopedia - Homeric Hymns
The anonymous Homeric Hymns celebrating individual gods are a collection of ancient Greek hymns, "Homeric" in the sense that they employ ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - The Libation Bearers
The Oresteia - Introduction. The Libation Bearers (also known as Choephoroe) is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus
Marcus Licinius Crassus Dives (Latin: M·LICINIVS·P·F·P·N·CRASSVS·DIVES¹) (ca. 115 BC–53 BC) was a Roman general and politician ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Matter Of Britain: Encyclopedia - Matter Of Britain
Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrew Melville: Encyclopedia - Andrew Melville
Andrew Melville (August 1, 1545-1622) was a Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer. He was born at Baldovy near Montrose, An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldus Manutius: Encyclopedia - Aldus Manutius
Aldus Manutius (1449/50 - February 6, 1515), the Latin form of Aldo Manuzio (born Teobaldo Mannucci) was the founder of the Aldine Press....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragedy: Encyclopedia - Tragedy
A tragedy may be defined loosely as any work of fiction in which the protagonist suffers a fall in his or her fortunes, and ends in a wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Callimachus: Encyclopedia - Callimachus
Callimachus (ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Cyrene and a descendant of the illustrious house of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Literature: Encyclopedia - Western Literature
This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this noti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women
The Catalogue of Women (Greek: γυναικῶν κατάλογος, gynaikon katalogos) is an epic of ancient Greek literature. Ancient...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kypria: Encyclopedia - Kypria
The Kypria (Greek: Κύπρια; Latin: Cypria) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Trojan War cycle, that is,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Dominance Of Athens
The Persian Wars ushered in a century of Athenian dominance of Greek affairs. Athens was the unchallenged master of the sea, and also the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Spartan And Theban Dominance
The end of the Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master of Greece, but the narrow outlook of the Spartan warrior elite did not suit them ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Social And Political Conflict
The Greek cities were originally monarchies, although many of them were very small and the term "King" (basileus) for their rulers is mis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Hellas
In the 8th century BC Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - The Eumenides
The Oresteia - Introduction. The Eumenides is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes and the Furies go before a jury of Athen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - Analysis
That the play ends on a happy note may surprise modern readers, to whom the word tragedy denotes a drama ending in misfortune. The word d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Romance: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Romance - Versions Of The Romance
Alexander was a legend in his own time. In a now-lost history of the king, the historical Callisthenes portrayed the sea in Cilicia as dr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Origins
The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Macedon
The Kingdom of Macedon was formed in the 7th century BC out of northern Greek tribes. They played little part in Greek politics before th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Conquests Of Alexander
Philip was succeeded by his 20-year-old son Alexander, who immediately set out to carry out his father's plans. He travelled to Corinth w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The proximate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerome: Encyclopedia - Jerome
Saint Jerome (ca. 347 – September 30, 420), (full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus) is best known as the translator of the Bible fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Ancient Greece
There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Greek period. In common usage it refers to al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penelope: Encyclopedia Ii - Penelope - Role In The Odyssey
Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca Odysseus (also known as Ulysses in Roman mythology) and daughter of Icariu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Little Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Little Iliad - Content
The Little Iliad is one of the better-attested epics in the Epic Cycle: nearly thirty lines of the original text survive. Nevertheless, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greek - Origins
There are several theories about the origins of the Greek language. One theory suggests that it originated with a migration of proto-Gree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliou Persis: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliou Persis - Content
Only ten lines of the original text of the Iliou persis survive. For its storyline we are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parody: Encyclopedia Ii - Parody - Western Origin
In ancient Greek literature, a parody was a type of poem that imitated another poem's style. Indeed, the Greek roots of the word parody a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Classical Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Basic Classical Topics - Greece
List of basic classical topics - History of Greece. The Minoan civilisation The Mycenaean civilisation The Dark Ages Classical Greece ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guillaume Budé: Encyclopedia Ii - Guillaume Budé - Life
He was born in Paris. He went to the University of Orléans to study law, but for several years, being possessed of ample means, he led a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Literature - Influences
If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized populace of the Eastern Roman Empire during the Chri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - Phonology
This section generally describes the post-Classic phonology of the Greek language. All phonetic transcriptions in this section use the I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aithiopis: Encyclopedia Ii - Aithiopis - Content
In current critical editions only five lines survive of the Aithiopis' original text. We are almost entirely dependent on a summary of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Ancient Greece
There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Greek period. In common usage it refers to all...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Clouds: Encyclopedia Ii - The Clouds - The Plot
The play opens with a citizen of Athens, Strepsiades (whose name means "Twister"), bemoaning the addiction of Pheidippides, his pretty-bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acritic Songs: Encyclopedia Ii - Acritic Songs - Subject
Written in Medieval Greek, the acritic songs deal with the ανδραγαθίες (heroic deeds) of ακρίτες (frontiersmen), warrio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tiresias: Encyclopedia Ii - Tiresias - Overview
Tiresias was a priest of Zeus, and as a young man he encountered two snakes mating and hit them with a stick. He was then transformed int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernist Poetry In English: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernist Poetry In English - The Emergence Of English-language Modernism
The roots of English-language poetic modernism can be traced back to the works of a number of earlier writers, including Walt Whitman, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Art And Architecture
The art and architecture of ancient Greece have greatly influenced Western art through the present day. Byzantine art and architecture al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Everett: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Everett - High Political Ranks
He then served as Governor of Massachusetts (1836-1840). Everett was appointed United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Matter Of Britain: Encyclopedia Ii - Matter Of Britain - Themes And Subjects
Matter of Britain - Legendary history of Britain. The legendary history of Britain was created in part to create a body of patriotic my...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalogue Of Women - Title And Date
In antiquity the poem was also known as the Ehoiai (Greek: Ἠοῖαι or Ἠ' οἷαι; Latin: Eoeae, Ehoeae, Eoiae, etc.), from the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kypria: Encyclopedia Ii - Kypria - Content
In current critical editions only about fifty lines survive of the Kypria's original text. We are almost entirely dependent on a summary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nostoi: Encyclopedia Ii - Nostoi - Content
The Nostoi relates the return home of the Greek heroes after the end of the Trojan War. In current critical editions only five and a half...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parody: Encyclopedia Ii - Parody - Western Origin
In ancient Greek literature, a parody was a type of poem that imitated another poem's style. Indeed, the Greek roots of the word parody a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Early Life
Marcus Licinius Crassus was the son of a former consul and censor, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives. He came from a respectable, well-estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Renaissance: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Renaissance - Origins
Italian Renaissance - Northern Italy in the High Middle Ages. By the late Middle Ages, central and southern Italy, once the heartland o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tragedy - Renaissance And 17th Century Tragedy
The classical tradition of Greek and Roman tragedy was largely forgotten in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of 16th ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - Phonology
This section generally describes the post-Classic phonology of the Greek language. All phonetic transcriptions in this section use the I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telegony: Encyclopedia Ii - Telegony - Content
The Telegony comprises two distinct episodes: Odysseus' voyage to Thesprotia, and the story of Telegonus. Probably each of the two books ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerome: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerome - Writings
Jerome - Translations. Jerome was a noted scholar of Latin at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek. He knew some Hebre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Greek Literature - The Emergence Of Modern Greek Literature 11th - 15th Century
The main forms and themes of this period include scholarly and popular epic songs celebrating the new champions of Hellenism; long compos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parody: Encyclopedia Ii - Parody - English Term
The first usage of the word parody in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is in Ben Jonson, in Every Man in His Humour in 1598...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Mycenaean Greece Bronze Age
Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parody: Encyclopedia Ii - Parody - Alternate Meaning
In the older sense of the word, parody can occur when whole elements of one work are lifted out of their context and reused. Pastiche is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Music
Main article: Music of Greece There have been excellent composers and performers in all kinds of music but traditional Greek music is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Religion
Main articles: Greek religion, Eastern Orthodoxy The Greek Orthodox Church, largely due to the importance of Byzantium in Greek History, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Ottoman Rule And The Rise Of Modern Greece
Main articles: Ottoman Greece and History of Modern Greece When the Ottomans arrived, two Greek migrations occurred. The first migration ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Literature
Main article: Greek literature The trebecki works in Trillville literary tradition recorded in writing are the epic poems of Homer and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Mycenaean Greece Bronze Age
Mycenaean Greece, also known as Bronze Age Greece, is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece. It lasted from the arr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Medieval Greece
The history of the Byzantine Empire is described by scholar August Heisenberg as the history "of the Roman state of the Greek nation, tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parody: Encyclopedia Ii - Parody - Film Parodying Film
Some genre film theorists see parody as a natural development in the life cycle of any genre, especially in film. Western movies, for exa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernist Poetry In English: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernist Poetry In English - Maturity
With the publication of The Waste Land, modernist poetry appeared to have made a breakthrough into wider critical discourse and a broader...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Legacy
Crassus' death is important for a number of reasons. While one of the most successful businessmen in Roman history, he still hungered for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Greek Literature - Cretan Literature 15th - 17th Centuries
Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this period, and perhaps the supreme achievement of modern Greek literature. It is a verse ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greek - Hellenistic Greek - Koiné
As Greeks colonized from Asia Minor to Egypt to the Middle East, the Greek language began to evolve into multiple dialects. Alexander the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - History
This article does not cover the reconstructed history of Greek prior to the use of writing. For more information, see main article on Pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - Grammar
Ancient Greek, like all of the older Indo-European languages, was highly inflected. For example nouns (including proper nouns) have five ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - Examples
Greek language - Some common words and phrases. Greek (man): Έλληνας, IPA /ˈe̞liˌnas/ Greek (woman): Ελληνίδα /ˌe̞...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - Writing System
Modern Greek is written in the late Ionic variant of the Greek alphabet, the oldest discovered inscriptions of which date to the 8th or 9...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Greek Literature - Enlightenment Era 17th Century - 1821
Ater the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 the only Greek regions which had not fallen to the Turks were Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes and the Ionia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greek - Ancient Greek Dialects
In the archaic and classical periods, there were three main dialects of the Greek language: Aeolic, Ionic, and Doric, corresponding to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Classical Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Basic Classical Topics - Rome
List of basic classical topics - History of Rome. The founding of Rome Roman Kingdom Roman Republic Roman Empire The fall of Rome Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Language - Literature
Greek language - Typography. Athena, public domain polytonic Greek font Gentium — a typeface for the nations, a freely available fon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernist Poetry In English: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernist Poetry In English - Politics
Poetic modernism was an overtly revolutionary literary movement, a 'revolution of the word', and, for a number of its practitioners, this...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernist Poetry In English: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernist Poetry In English - Modernist Poetry
The questioning of the self and the exploration of technical innovations in modernist poetry are intimately interconnected. The dislocati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Greek Literature - Early 20th Century 1880 - 1930
Georgios Vizyinos, author of poems, short stories, children’s literature and essays of philosophical, psychological and ethnological su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Greek Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Greek Literature - 19th Century Literature 1821 - 1880
This period, which begins with the struggle for independence in 1821 and ends sixty years later when the fledgling Greek State was confro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Medieval Greece
The history of the Byzantine Empire is described by scholar August Heisenberg as the history "of the Roman state of the Greek nation, tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernist Poetry In English: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernist Poetry In English - Legacy
The modernist 'revolution of the word' was not universally welcomed, either by readers or writers. Certainly by the 1930s, a new generati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greece - Creation Of The Modern Greek State
The Ottomans ruled Greece until the early 19th century. In 1821, the Greeks rebelled in the Greek War of Independence and declared their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Consulship And The First Triumvirate
Because of their work in the slave rebellion, the two men overcame their differences, ran for, and were elected to, the consulship, in 70...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - The Revolt Of Spartacus
Crassus had worked his way up to serving as praetor when the revolt of Spartacus and other ex-gladiators flamed into a general slave insu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalogue Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalogue Of Women - Reception And Influence
As noted above, the poem has similarities to many passages in Homer. This implies that they share a common genre in some respects: the Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Licinius Crassus: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Licinius Crassus - Disaster In Parthia
In an attempt to counter Caesar’s and Pompey’s growing fame and power, Crassus had intended to use Syria as a base for operations aga...   » Read the article