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Αρχαία Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία
Writing is a method to preserve information and probably the most important information is that used for the storage and trade of objects. It is probably not surprising that Phoenicians developed the first version of the Greek Alphabet.
... My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."... Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. ...Senator Robert F. Kennedy , Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Indianapolis, Indiana 4th April 1968 ( See also http://morec.com/rfk.htm for information about the Kennedy version.)
The word Drama, comes from the Greek verb dran ("to act" or "to do") refers to actions or deeds performed in a theatrical setting for the benefit of the spectators
The word 'Tragedy', on which Aristotle discoursed at length, and concerning which philosophers still argue, comes from the Greek 'tragoidia' = 'tragos' (goat) + 'oide' (song) = goat-song". Richard Joyce of Sheffield University
(Derived either from the practice of sacrificing goats before the performance of tragedies or from the goat-skins worn by choruses.)
Sappho is one of the first women poets we know and some of her poems survived partly as fragments as here books were burned by Christians. Homer produced the first two Love stories. That of Hellen and Paris and Odysseus and Penelope. With Lysistrata (She who dissolves the army) we have the message that is still actual: “Make Love not War!” In 160 AD we have the first ancient Greek-Syrian Science Fiction Story!
"no Classical Greek plays on homoerotic themes survive, although we know that they existed, such as Aeschylus’s Myrmidons" maybe also due to religious reasons (according to some stories Pope Gregory VII ordered the destruction of the work of Sappho ) Curiosities of Literature
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Sappho
A man with bad breath asked, "Dear why do you hate me?" And she answered, "Because you love me." Philogelos
Ancient Greek Jokes (Philogelos, the Laughter Lover), Philogelos in Greek
...the most beautiful, all-embracing theme is that of the Odyssey. It is greater, more human, than that of Hamlet, Don Quixote, Dante, Faust. I was twelve years old when we took up the Odyssey at school; only the Odyssey stuck in my memory. James Joyce
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δεῖπνά μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροφα καὶ μάλα πολλά , a parody of the Odyssey by Matron of Pitane |
Homer ,
Homer tops AMAZON poetry bestseller list 2004
The Apotheosis of Homer, Who is Who? , Archelaos: The Apotheosis of Homer
In 2004 a fourth poem of Sappho was discovered. Except 3 other poems 264 fragments with 63 complete lines of her work are known today .
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain
Oresteia Trilogy (Comments) (Agamemnon - Choephoroi - Eumenides )
Achilles (Comments) (Myrmidons - Nereids - Phrygians)
Iphigeneia at Aulis (Comments)
Sophocles is wise (sophos) -Euripides wiser (sophoteros) - but wisest (sophotatos) of all men is Socrates. Oracle of Delphi
Pope Paul II played as a student Haemon the son of Creon ( Antigone of Sophocles). When he visited Poland he was asked by the crowd to talk about his life. He said that he played Haemon. Even old and after decades passed he knew the text.
The outlying villages, they say, are by them called komai, by the Athenians demoi: and they assume that comedians were so named not from komazein, "to revel," but because they wandered from village to village (kata komas), being excluded contemptuously from the city....
The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. Aristotle Poetics
The Clouds , Notes, The Clouds (Comments) , Are the Clouds of Aristophanes the origin of academic life?
The Frogs, The Frogs (Comments)
The Acharnians, The Acharnians (Comments)
“The Father of Lies”,
The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
History of the Peloponnesian War
Preliminary Observations on Thucydides, Ian Johnston
For the Freedom of the Rhodians
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Demosthenes' orations Political orations Olynthiacs 1-2-3 | First Philippic | On the Peace | Second Philippic | On the Halonnesus | On the Chersonese | Third Philippic | Fourth Philippic | Reply to Philip | Philip | On Organisation | On the Navy | For the Megalopolitans | On the Liberty of the Rhodians | On the Accession of Alexander Judicial orations On the Crown | On the False Embassy | Against Leptines | Against Meidias | Against Androtion | Against Aristocrates | Against Timocrates | Against Aristogiton 1-2 | Against Aphobus 1-2-3 | Against Ontenor 1-2 | Against Zenothemis | Against Apatourius | Against Phormio | Against Lacritus | For Phormio | Against Pantaenetus | Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes | Against Boeotus 1-2 | Against Spudias | Against Phaenippus | Against Macartatus | Against Leochares | Against Stephanus 1-2 | Against Evergus and Mnesibulus | Against Olympiodorus | Against Timotheus | Against Polycles | On the Trierarcic Crown | Against Callipus | Against Nicostratus | Against Conon | Against Callicles | Against Dionysodorus | Against Eubulides | Against Theocrines | Against Naeara Epideictic orations Funeral Oration | Erotic Essay |
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Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Alcibiades and Coriolanus - Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar - Aratus & Artaxerxes and Galba & Otho |
On Horsemanship
Xenophon, Philosopher, Warrior, Author (The March of the 10700, Economy, History)
O Demosthenes if you had power like your intellect then the Macedonian Ares would not rule the Greeks! Inscription of a Demosthenes sculpture
Xenophon, Philosopher, Warrior, Author (The March of the 10700, Economy, History)
There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be it only for half an hour, and you will feel yourself refreshed, relieved, purified, ennobled, strengthened; just as though you had quenched your thirst at some pure spring. Arthur Schopenhauer
Ancient Greek Humour, Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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