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    The document provides information about ancient Greece and its contributions to literature, art, philosophy and architecture. It discusses famous Greek authors such as Homer and his epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Homer is considered a mystery but was an important writer who helped shape Western culture. The document also briefly outlines Greece's influence on fields like literature, art, and architecture through developments like the first complex literature, concepts of aesthetic beauty, and architectural designs using columns and pediments.

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    The document provides information about ancient Greece and its contributions to literature, art, philosophy and architecture. It discusses famous Greek authors such as Homer and his epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Homer is considered a mystery but was an important writer who helped shape Western culture. The document also briefly outlines Greece's influence on fields like literature, art, and architecture through developments like the first complex literature, concepts of aesthetic beauty, and architectural designs using columns and pediments.

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    The document provides information about ancient Greece and its contributions to literature, art, philosophy and architecture. It discusses famous Greek authors such as Homer and his epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Homer is considered a mystery but was an important writer who helped shape Western culture. The document also briefly outlines Greece's influence on fields like literature, art, and architecture through developments like the first complex literature, concepts of aesthetic beauty, and architectural designs using columns and pediments.

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    Greek Literature

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    The document provides information about ancient Greece and its contributions to literature, art, philosophy and architecture. It discusses famous Greek authors such as Homer and his epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Homer is considered a mystery but was an important writer who helped shape Western culture. The document also briefly outlines Greece's influence on fields like literature, art, and architecture through developments like the first complex literature, concepts of aesthetic beauty, and architectural designs using columns and pediments.

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    Some of the key figures and topics mentioned include Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Plato, and the origins and history of Ancient Greece.

    Authors and works mentioned include Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Plato, and Nikos Kazantzakis. Homer is described as an important writer who helped shape Western culture.

    The passage mentions that Homer's poems established a fixed model of heroism and nobility. It also says his portrayal of the gods was interesting in that they lacked dignity compared to mortal heroes.

    PLATO

    Penelope Hippocrates
    Nikos
    Kazantzakis Delta

    aRCHIMEDES homer
    1

    GREECE GROUP
    “The Glory that was Greece”

    Start to Presentation
    Short history of Ancient Greece

    SPAIN
    Aegean Sea E M
    H
    L E TO T
    IC AB
    A P P L
    LITERATURE
    PAINTING
    SCULPTURE
    ARCHITECTURE INDIA
    PHILOSOPHY
    Famous Author / History Maker

    Smyrna

    “Blind Poet”
    “Blind Bard”
    Homer The Iliad
    and
    the odyssey
    • His location on the eastern island of Chios makes a good amount of sense.

    • the island of Chios also has on it a famous rock that Homer supposedly wrote
    and taught from.

    • Homer was a very important writer who helped shaping Western Culture.

    • Homer is a mystery.
    The Iliad by Homer

    • it tells the story last year of the Trojan War.

    • Achilles leads the Myrmidons against the


    Trojans, who are led by the city of Troy.

    • Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter.

    • mid-8th Century BCE

    • Iliad contains 15,693 lines, divided into 24 books and is


    written in Homeric Greek.
    The Odyssey by Homer

    • It was composed in Homeric Greek Literature around 7 th or 8th century


    BCE.
    • The first English translation of the Odyssey was in 16 th century.

    • Odysseus king of Ithaca.


    • It contains a 12,000-line poem

    • It was made for listeners rather than readers.


    • Performed by oral poets called rhapsodes.
    • Rhapsodes means “stitching together”

    The Odyssey
    Homer’s Contribution

    to provide a • His portrayal of


    the gods is also
    common set of
    His poems interesting.
    values that
    enshrined the established a fixed
    • possessing far
    model of heroism,
    Greeks' own less dignity
    nobility, and the
    ideas about good life.
    than their
    themselves. heroic mortal
    counterparts.
    Contribution
    Contribution of
    of Greek
    Greek Literature
    Literature to
    to the
    the World
    World

    Literature
    • Ancient Greeks were the first to create complex literature
    • oldest literature styles is epic poetry
    • The Iliad and Odyssey

    ART
    • Ancient Greek first develop the concept of aesthetic beauty
    • Greek mythology was a major source of inspiration for
    many European painters
    architecture
    • The use of columns and pediments
    • Ancient Greek design particles such
    us Modern public structures.
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