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Title: Greek Art and Literature - Literature Study Guide
Description: This study guide tells you all about Greece including basic information, holidays and festivals, and history with a focus on Greek art and literature including its major forms of art, history and qualities.
Description: This study guide tells you all about Greece including basic information, holidays and festivals, and history with a focus on Greek art and literature including its major forms of art, history and qualities.
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GREECE
Greece
● Official name: Hellenic Republic
● Capital City: Athens
● Country in the Mediterranean with miles of coastline
● Largest islands: Crete & Evia
● Language: Greek (oldest language in Europe) ; most also speak English
● Religion:
[98%] Greek Orthodox ; Roman Catholic, Jewish & Muslim faiths
Holidays & Festivals in Greece
● New Year's Day
● Gynaikratia (Jan 8)
= traditional roles of the people of northern Greek villages are swapped
= men do housework, women drink coffee in cafes
● Greek Carnival season
= lasts 3 weeks in Feb & March (before beginning of Lent)
= people dress up; feasts, dances, parades w/ general party atmosphere
● Easter
= most significant festival in the Greek year
= candlelit processions, feasting, fireworks
● Hellenic Festival
= lasts from mid-June to late Sep
= biggest summer festival, which is common in Greece
= concerts ft
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Greek history
● Goes back to the Bronze Age (300-1200 BC)
● Many Greek masterpieces were constructed during the Golden Age / Classical Age
of ancient Greece
= Parthenon was built in Athens
= Sophocles wrote Oedipus the King
= Democracy started in Greece
Greek contributions
● Modern democracy (from government of ancient Greece)
Obstacles to Understanding the Greeks
● Probing a distant past is extremely difficult (Experiences can't be reconstructed as
they were)
● Greek works can only be read through translations (ancient Greek is a dead
language)
Poetry
● What the greater portion of Greek literary works were written in
● Is two-thirds melody & one-third thought
= This distinguishes poetry from prose
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Remote Antiquity - Age of Herodotus
● This covers the Pre-Homeric & Homeric Age
● Includes the earliest poetry of Greece & the works of Homer
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Period of Decline (to AD 1453)
● Extends from the death of Alexander the Great to the enslavement of the Greeks
by the Romans
Qualities of Greek Literature
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Essentially Full of Artistry
● Greek literature is a product of development of physical & intellectual powers
● Greek art is the highest form of classic art
● The Greeks had such a great love for beauty; all their objects were conceived with
beauty
● The Greek mind became the foundation of literature of the Western world;
Its masterpieces offer the most splendid examples of artistic beauty & excellence the
world has ever known
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Originality
● This doesn't mean all literary types originated from Greece
= The drama was produced by Egyptians ; the narrative poetry was cultivated in
India
● The Greek mind modified & improved all it touched
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Diversity of Talent
● The Greek mind never rested on one subject; it was fond of diversity of
application
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Title: Greek Art and Literature - Literature Study Guide
Description: This study guide tells you all about Greece including basic information, holidays and festivals, and history with a focus on Greek art and literature including its major forms of art, history and qualities.
Description: This study guide tells you all about Greece including basic information, holidays and festivals, and history with a focus on Greek art and literature including its major forms of art, history and qualities.