Literature

The ancient Greeks had a lot of amazing Literature,which can be still read today,2500 years afterwards.Their writing was divided into 7 typical groups.Poems,Plays,legal speeches,the epic,philosophical dialogues and treatises and history.In the following I will give you examples of greek literature,for these groups/types.

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Epic:Homer wrote 2 realated epics,the Iliad and Odyssey.These can be still read today!

Poem:A nice example of a greek poem,is hesiod's Theogany,from about 700 bc.

Play: Aeschylus was written in 500 bc.,and is so the oldest Play existing.

History:Herodotus wrote about the Persian wars,in 450 BC.

philosophical dialogues and treatise:Plato wrote the first philosophical speech in 380 BC,in which 2 people are talking two each,in a play type form.

Legal speeches:The 3 most famous writers for this type of writing,were Lysias,Isocrates and Demosphenes! The Iliad by Homer