Greece Pt 2 Flashcards
Four major forms of Greek art
Architecture, painting, sculpture, and poetry
Epic poet
Homer
Lyric poet
Pindor
Great prose practicioners
Herodotus and Thucydides
No prose is poetic than
Plato
“In her eyes, one could read the story of the Trojan War”
Polygnotus
Between 300 and 1200 B.C. Athens was built, Sophocles wrote Oedipus the King, beginnings of democracy
Bronze age
Lyrical poem. Is what particularly distinguishes poetry from prose.
Two thirds melody, one third thought
How many periods is greek literature divided into?
Three
What is the first period of Greek literature? This period includes earliest poetry of Greece and works of Homer
Pre-Homeric age and Homeric age
What is the second period of Greek Literature? It extends from the Age of Herodotus to the death of Alexander the Great
Athenian to Golden age of Pericles
What is the third period of Greek literature? It extends from the death of Alexander the great to the enslavement of Greeks by the Romans
Period of Decline
it is still alive, used, and read
Permanence and University
greek art is the highest form of classic art, product of people who developed physical and intellectual power
Essentially full of Artistry
The Greek mind improved all it touched
Originality
