800 700 BC Epic Poetry Homer Iliad Odyssey

800 -700 BC • Epic Poetry • Homer Iliad, Odyssey, Homeric Hymns (Demeter, Apollo, Hermes…) • Didactic Epic • Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days

Early Greek Lyric 7 th-6 th c. • • Early Greek Lyric Kallinos: Elegy Tyrtaios: Patriotic Elegy Archilochos: Iambic poetry: Revolution of themes and meters Simonides: Epigram Stesichoros: Myth Theognis: Aristocratic Poetry Hipponax: Famously biting verses

Mature Greek Lyric (6 th century) • Sappho: The first woman poet whose work partially survives • Alcaeus: Drinking songs, hymns, love songs, and political odes • Pindar and Bacchylides: Epinician Songs • Alcman: Choral poetry • Anacreon: Playful love poetry

Presocratic Philosophy & Science • Thales: Water is the principle of all things • Anaxagoras • Anaximenes • Xenophanes • Empedocles: The four elements • Parmenides

Tragedy (5 th c. BC) • Greek Drama: Tragedy: • Aeschylos: Persians, Oresteia, • Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra, Ajax • Euripides: Bacchae, Andromache, Alcestis, Medea, Helen

Comedy • • Old Comedy (5 th c): Kratinos Pherecrates: Savages Aristophanes: Birds, Clouds, Frogs, Lysistrata • New Comedy (Late 4 th c. ) • Menander • Diphilos

Historiography (5 th-4 th c. ) • • Historiography: Herodotos Thucydides Xenophon: Anabasis, Hellenica, Education of Cyrus, Spartan Constitution (essay and monograph)

Philosophy • • • Philosophy: Socrates Plato, Dialogues Aristotle Democritus

Medicine and Sciences • Medicine: • Hippocrates • Diocles of Carystus • Mathematics and other sciences • Pythagoras • Aristotle

Oratory/Rhetoric (4 th c. ) • • Oratory Antiphon Lysias Isaios Isocrates Demosthenes Hypereides Literary Criticism and Rhetoric • Gorgias • Aristotle

Hellenistic Poetry and Historiography (3 rd -2 nd c. BC) • • Poetry: Theocritos (bucolic) Apollonios (epic) Kallimachos (lyric) • Historiography: • Polybios • Dionysios Halicarnasseus

Philology • • Philology: Aristophanes Byzantios Dionysios Halicarnasseus Dionysius Thrax Aristarchus Didymus Chalcenterus Harpocration

Medicine and Anatomy • • • Medicine/Anatomy: Herophilos, Erasistratos Rufus of Ephesos Asclepiades Soranos Pharmacology Theophrastus (4 th c. ) Dioscorides

Science and Mathematics • Science and Mathematics: • Euclid • Ptolemy • Archimedes • Hippodamos

Hellenistic Philosophy • • Philosophy: Epicurus Chrysippos Zenon Cleanthes Cynics Sceptics

Imprerial Era/Late Antiquity • • • Historiography/ Biography Plutarch Humor: Lucian Medicine: Galen Philosophy: Neoplatonics: Proclus Porphyry

Early Christianity (1 st-4 th c. AD) • Early Chrisian authors: • Dionysius Areopagites • Irenaeus • Justin • Clement of Alexandria • Origen

Byzantine Theology • • Theology: Basil Gregory Nazianzenus Gregory of Nyssa John Chrysostom Kavasilas Gregory Palamas

Byzantine Historiography • • • Historiography: Procopius Agathias Emperor Constantine VII, Porphyrogennetos Michael Attaliates Michael Psellos Anna Komnene Niketas Choniates Emperor John VI Cantacuzene Chalkokondyles

Chronicle • • Chronicle: Malalas Theophanes Confessor Zonaras

Philology/Scholarship • • Philology: Hesychius Patriarch Photius Arethas Eustathius, Suda Byzantine Scholia and Lexica (e. g. Etymologicum Magnum) • Triklinios • Maximos Planudes • John Tzetzes

Byzantine Hymnography • • Poetry/Hymnography: Romanos Melodos Akathist Hymn Kassiane Andrew of Crete John Damaskenos Kosmas Melodos (of Hierosolyma)

Early Modern Greek Literature • Byzantine Epic Poetry (vernacular) • Digenes Acritas • Cretan Literature: • George Chortatzis • Vizentzos Kornaros • • Ottoman Period: Regas Ferraios Adamantios Koraes Demotic Poetry