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EPIC POETRY
is a narrative poem.
Homer
Iliad: On the occasion of the “menis” (the anger) of
Hesiod
Theogonia: about the birth of the gods.
The subjects of Lyric poetry covers all the aspects of human life.
Phorminx.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Flute
Phorminx
GENRES OF LYRIC POETRY
Comedy: Aristophanes.
Satyric Drama.
CLASSICAL PERIOD
Historiography
works.
CLASSICAL PERIOD
Rhetoric
Christianity in the Greek East until the beginning of the 6th century
AD.
Chrysostom.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
BYZANTINE LITERATURE
century Ad.
ROMANOS MELODOS
BYZANTINE LITERATURE 10th cent.-1204
Historiography
Ptochoprodromika
Threnoi
Chronicles
Abraham of V. Kornaros
In the 1820’s, the first poems about the Revolution were written
masterpiece of Modern
Greek Literature.
MAKRYGIANNIS, Memoirs
Constantine Cavafy.
K. CAVAFY, Ithaca
PROSE 1880-1922
Alexandros
Papadiamantis.
A. PAPADIAMANTIS, The murderer
G. VIZYINOS, The only journey of his life (το
μόνον της ζωής του ταξίδιον )
1922-1930
Refugees from
Smyrna
Rempart Vitouri, in Herakleion
1922-1930
Moonlight Sonata
N. ENGONOPOULOS. He serves surrealism both
in painting and poetry.
political activity,
POSTWAR LITERATURE