Literature

Literature - Mao Christe Eleanor Weldie Taylah Babb

Notes: -famous poet sappo wrote poems that were incomplete. []

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**Byzantine Literature - AD 290-1453** **- defined as Greek literature of the Middle Ages** **- written in** ** [|Atticizing], [|Medieval] and early [|Modern Greek] .** **- most writing was religious - sermons, hymns, theological works, descriptions of lives of martyrs and saints.** **- only literature that showed any real originality was written in vernacular** **- poems, romances, epics - only written from 12th century onward**

Thanks Keisha! :) I'll be bringing the powerpoint to school on Monday, so you can see if you guys like it from there.

Hellenistic and Roman literature -Hellenistic comes from the word hellas, meaning greece. Hellenistic signifies the spread of greek literature around the mediterranean -the Roman empire became dependent on greek literature Hellenistic Poetry -flourished primarily in 3rd century BC -Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes were primary poets -Theocritus created pastoral poetry "harvest home" is viewed as his best work -Callimachus most famous work is 'Aetia', the best know elegy for special occasions is 'lock of berenice' Apollonius wrote the epic Argonautica Prose -Significant historians: Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch -timaeus wrote 'Olympionikai', a chronological study of the Olympic Games. -Polybius wrote 40 books telling of Rome's rise to power -Diodorus Siculus wrote the Bibliotheca historica which is about the universal history -Dionysius wrote of the history of Rome from its origins to the first punic war -Appian wrote of Rome and its conquests while Arrian focused more on the campaigns of Alexander the great -'Parallel lives' by plutarch has been read by every generation since it was published

Hellenistic poem Epic: The Argonautica Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece. 

Such was the oracle that Pelias heard, that a hateful doom awaited him to be slain at the prompting of the man whom he should see coming forth from the people with but one sandal. And no long time after, in accordance with that true report, Jason crossed the stream of wintry Anaurus on foot, and saved one sandal from the mire, but the other he left in the depths held back by the flood. And straightway he came to Pelias to share the banquet which the king was offering to his father Poseidon and the rest of the gods, though he paid no honour to Pelasgian Hera. Quickly the king saw him and pondered, and devised for him the toil of a troublous voyage, in order that on the sea or among strangers he might lose his home-return. 

The ship, as former bards relate, Argus wrought by the guidance of Athena. But now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea-paths and the deeds they wrought in their wanderings; may the Muses be the inspirers of my song! 

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