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Greek literature, ancient
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...ancient Greek literature, the writings of the ancient Greeks...all, Demosthenes. "Classical" Greek literature is said to have ended with the deaths...Greek LiteratureThe next period of Greek literature reached its zenith in Hellenistic......
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Greek literature, modern
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...modern Greek literature, literature written in Greek in...Greek LiteratureUnder Turkish rule, Greek literature virtually ceased, except in Crete...nationalist revival that awakened a modern Greek literature. The Language DebateLiterature was hampered......
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Greek language
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......1976 that it was accepted as the official written Greek language (see Greek literature, modern). Distinctive CharacteristicsBoth the nouns and verbs of Ancient Greek were highly inflected. Verbs had active, middle......
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Greek Anthology
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...Greek Anthology, a collection of short epigrammatic poems representing Greek literature from the 7th cent. BC to the 10th cent...3d ed. 1911), W. R. Paton (with Greek texts, 5 vol., 1916–26), Dudley......
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Hebrew literature
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......Judaea by Titus. The literature of the Jews developed...there were also works in Greek, Aramaic, and Arabic...poets of modern Hebrew literature are Hayyim Nahman Bialik...influenced by ancient Greek literature. The poetry of Abraham......
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patristic literature
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...patristic literature, Christian writings of...centuries. They are chiefly in Greek and Latin; there is analogous...first period of patristic literature (1st–2d cent.) includes...greatly. The chief writers in Greek were Eusebius of Caesarea......
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Hellenistic civilization
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......was much more widespread than ever before, and Greek was the fashionable language of the educated world. The result was a great increase of volume in literature (see Greek literature, ancient) and a tendency for writing to divide......
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classicism
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......admiration and imitation of Greek and Roman literature, art, and architecture...intensified interest in Greek and Roman culture...the ideal norm in literature. In Florence, the...renewed interest in Greek literature, and classical models......
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Greece
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......aspects of ancient Greek culture are covered in separate articles—Greek architecture, Greek art, Greek language, Greek literature, Greek music, and Greek religion. See also the articles on the cities, e.g., Athens, Sparta, Corinth......
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Homer
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......Homer, principal figure of ancient Greek literature; the first European poet. Works...composed in a literary type of Greek, Ionic in basis with Aeolic admixtures...among the great works of Western literature, these two poems together constitute......