Greek-Roman Literature

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Ancient Greece Literature	Image: Lessons From Greece (image/jpeg)
Literature is closely connected to their conception of cosmos	Beliefs: * Destiny * Men have a responsibility to mantain stability of the cosmos * In a certain point, men will be preys of their own passions (wrath, pride, envy, etc) -> This alters the stability of universe
Image: Drama (image/jpeg)	Literary Genres
Aristotle defined three different literary genres.	* Epic poetry * Lyric poetry *Dramatic poetry
Epic Poetry	Narrates facts and beings from the external world of the poet. + Heroes, Gods, Demi-Gods + Historical-based, mixed with fantasy. + Passed down generations orally + Popular -> ancestor of novels
Key authors Image: 225e1b2141746f9847845b6551f064fc (image/jpeg)	Homer was a blind poet. * Iliad and Odyssey. * Batrachomyomachia
Elegy (lyric poetry)	Is a lyrical poem referring to and expressing feelings instead of telling a story.
Key authors Image: 51o+Czk3d Ql. Sx311 Bo1,204,203,200 (image/jpeg)	* Callinus * Mimnermus = Love * Archilochus = Hatred
Lyric Poetry Image: 320px Sutton Hoo Lyre (Reconstruction) (image/jpeg)	Poetry that was intended to be sung among friends with a lyre.
Key authors	* Sappho Anacreon Pindar (Odes)
Dramatic poetry Image: Images?Q=Tbn:A Nd9 Gc Tyo Xi2 Juw6y Gpr4 Kb6z3 Nr3ojs Vc3 Lr7ethq S Rs P01lw Zd Cyp Qtg (image/jpeg)	Works meant to be performed or acted in a scenario.
Drama has three different sub-genres.	Image: Images?Q=Tbn:A Nd9 Gc Qjw Pxi Xf Kt E2wro Xd Ryro Uc9 W7 Xh M0takoyl Ww Ttq T Eg Ku7 Gr6 Ew (image/png)
Key authors: Tragedy.	* Aeschylus (The Persians, The Oresteia, Prometheus bound) Euripides (19 works remain like: Medea, The Trojan Women) Sophocles (Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Ajax)
Key authors: Comedy and satire	Epicarno Aristophanes (Assemblywomen, The Clouds) *Cratinus (Pytine)
Latin Literature Image: Latin Lit. (binary/octet-stream)	Romans adapted Greek models and transmitted them across the Empire.
Literary Genres	Theatre Prose Epic Poetry Lyric Poetry Elegy
Latin Comedy	It's different from the Greek comedy because it talks about private lives insted of politics.
Key authors	Plautus (20 comedies still available: Amphytrion, Mercator) Terentius (Andrius, Hecyra (the mother-in-law))
Tragedy	There were some authors that wrote tragedies but few fragments remain nowadays. Two types: Greek content and Roman content.
Prose	"Cicero era" -> 86 B.C - 44 B.C Political revolutions, wars, literary peak.
Key authors	Cicero (De inventione, De oratore) Julius Caesar: "Great Roman historian". (The Gallic Wars, The Civil War)
Epic Poetry	It hits the peak during the Augustan era, a period of peace and floushing of the arts and literature.
Virgil Image: Virgil 360x450 (image/jpeg)	The Eclogues The Georgics *The Aeneid
Lyric Poetry and Elegy key authors	Catulus (116 poems: Book of Catulus in Verona) Horace (Odes, Epistols and Satires) *Ovid (Remedia amoris, Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, Heroides)

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