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A History of Ancient Greek Literature is an exceptional and comprehensive textbook of Europe's oldest civilization. The book covers the ancient Greek literature from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. It begins with the earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as having some relation to the Mycenaean era. Homer's epics as well as the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. All above mentioned periods are presented in this book with a special emphasise on every particularly literary genre of ancient Greek literature - epic poetry, lyric poetry, drama, historiography and philosophy. _x000D_ Contents_x000D_ Homer_x000D_ Lesser Homeric Poems; Hesiod; Orpheus_x000D_ The Descendants of Homer, Hesiod, and Orpheus_x000D_ The Song_x000D_ The Beginnings of Prose_x000D_ Herodotus_x000D_ Philosophic and Political Literature to the Death of Socrates_x000D_ Thucydides_x000D_ The Drama_x000D_ Aeschylus_x000D_ Sophocles_x000D_ Euripides_x000D_ Comedy_x000D_ Plato_x000D_ Xenophon_x000D_ The 'Orators'_x000D_ Demosthenes and His Contemporaries_x000D_ The Later Literature, Alexandrian and Roman
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