A History of Ancient Greek Literature

Achilles Alcæus Alexandrian Anacreon ancient Apollo Aristotle ascribed Athenian Athens Attic Bacchylides belong born called century B. C. character chief choral poetry chorus Comedy composed death Demosthenes dialect dialogues Dionysius dithyramb doctrines drama Edipus elegiac Ephorus epic epic poetry Eschylus Euripides expression extant father festivals fifth century fragments gods Greece Greek literature Heracles Herodotus heroes Hesiod historians Homeric poems honor hymns Hyperides iambic Iliad imitated important influence interesting Ionic Isocrates king known later literary lived lyric poetry Lysias metre moral myths narrative Odyssey oracle orator Orestes origin pæans period Persians Pherecydes of Syros philosophers Pindar Plato play plot political preserved probably prose pupil rhetoric Roman Rome Sicily Simonides Socrates songs sophists Sophocles Sparta speeches Stesichorus story style sung Syracuse tells Text things third century Thucydides tion tragedies tragic poet Trojan verse words writers written wrote Xenophon Zeus