Greek literature

E834867

cultural tradition literature

Greek literature encompasses the body of written works produced in the Greek language from antiquity to the modern era, including foundational epics, dramas, philosophy, and poetry that have profoundly influenced Western culture.

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Label	Occurrences
Greek literature canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural tradition ⓘ literature ⓘ
hasCanonicalWork	Antigone NERFINISHED ⓘ Axion Esti NERFINISHED ⓘ Digenis Akritas NERFINISHED ⓘ Enneads NERFINISHED ⓘ Erotokritos NERFINISHED ⓘ Histories NERFINISHED ⓘ History of the Peloponnesian War NERFINISHED ⓘ Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ Life in the Tomb NERFINISHED ⓘ Lysistrata NERFINISHED ⓘ Medea NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicomachean Ethics NERFINISHED ⓘ Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ Oedipus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ Oresteia NERFINISHED ⓘ Poems by Constantine P. Cavafy NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Clouds NERFINISHED ⓘ The Free Besieged NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Temptation of Christ NERFINISHED ⓘ The Third Wedding Wreath NERFINISHED ⓘ Theogony NERFINISHED ⓘ Works and Days NERFINISHED ⓘ Zorba the Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCenter	Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ Constantinople NERFINISHED ⓘ Thessaloniki NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasContinuity	from antiquity to the present ⓘ
hasEarliestMajorWorksDate	8th century BCE ⓘ
hasInfluenced	European education ⓘ Neoclassical literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance literature ⓘ Western drama ⓘ Western literature ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ
hasKeyAuthor	Aeschylus NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexandros Papadiamantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Anna Komnene NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristophanes NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ Constantine P. Cavafy NERFINISHED ⓘ Dionysios Solomos NERFINISHED ⓘ Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ George Seferis NERFINISHED ⓘ Gregory of Nazianzus NERFINISHED ⓘ Herodotus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hesiod NERFINISHED ⓘ Homer NERFINISHED ⓘ John Chrysostom NERFINISHED ⓘ Kostis Palamas NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucian of Samosata NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Psellos NERFINISHED ⓘ Mikis Theodorakis NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikos Karouzos NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikos Kazantzakis NERFINISHED ⓘ Odysseas Elytis NERFINISHED ⓘ Plato NERFINISHED ⓘ Plotinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophocles NERFINISHED ⓘ Stratis Myrivilis NERFINISHED ⓘ Thucydides NERFINISHED ⓘ Xenophon NERFINISHED ⓘ Yannis Ritsos NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguage	Greek language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPeriod	Ancient Greek literature ⓘ Byzantine Greek literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Hellenistic Greek literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Greek literature ⓘ
hasSubgenre	comedy ⓘ epic poetry ⓘ folk poetry ⓘ hagiography ⓘ historiography ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ novel ⓘ oratory ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ religious poetry ⓘ romance ⓘ tragedy ⓘ
hasTheme	city-state life ⓘ heroism ⓘ love ⓘ mythology ⓘ philosophical inquiry ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ tragedy of fate ⓘ war ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Greek alphabet ⓘ
isPartOf	Western canon NERFINISHED ⓘ
isTaughtIn	classical studies ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ philology ⓘ

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Hellenism → associatedWith → Greek literature ⓘ