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Ancient Greek Literary Giants

The document provides information on several ancient Greek writers from the period of ancient Greek literature. Some of the key writers mentioned include Homer, who wrote the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey; Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, who were preeminent ancient Greek dramatists; Sappho, a female Greek poet from the 7th century BCE; and Plutarch, a Greek essayist and biographer. The document also briefly discusses several other ancient Greek tragedians such as Aphareus, Choerilus, and Xenocles.

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Ancient Greek Literary Giants

The document provides information on several ancient Greek writers from the period of ancient Greek literature. Some of the key writers mentioned include Homer, who wrote the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey; Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, who were preeminent ancient Greek dramatists; Sappho, a female Greek poet from the 7th century BCE; and Plutarch, a Greek essayist and biographer. The document also briefly discusses several other ancient Greek tragedians such as Aphareus, Choerilus, and Xenocles.

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Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until

roughly the rise of the Byzantine Empire.

Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.E.) Ancient Greek dramatist specialized in tragedies, among them Prometheus Bound

Aesop (c.620-560 B.C.E) Ancient Greek fabulist whose allegorical fables have fables have inspired many writers. Plutarch (c.46-120) Greek essayist and biographer whose monumental tome, The Parallel Lives, influenced many scholars and writers, including Shakespeare. Sappho (c. 620 B.C.E. ) Greek female poet of whose work little remains today except fragments of love poems.

Homer (c. 850 B.C.E.) Ancient Greek writer sometimes called the father of literature. His epics Iliad and Odyssey are two of history's most important achievements.

Euripedes (c.480-406 B.C.E.) Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus, a preeminent Ancient Greek dramatist.

Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.E): Greek dramatist who, along with Aeschylus and Euripides. wrote some of the greatest Greek tragedies. His classic Oedipus Rex is among the greatest plays ever written. Aphareus (4th century BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian and orator. He attended the school of Isocrates, along with Theodectes. He was the son of Hippias the sophist, and the adopted son of Isocrates, left behind him thirty-seven tragedies, and had been successful in winning four victories.

Choerilus was an Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC -Choerilus was said to have competed with Aeschylus, Pratinas and even Sophocles. According to Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, however, the rival of Sophocles was a son of Choerilus, who bore the same name. The Suidas states that Choerilus wrote 150 tragedies and gained the prize thirteen times. His works are all lost; only Pausanias mentions a play by him entitled Alope (a mythological personage who was the subject of dramas by Euripides and Carcinus). His reputation as a writer of satyric dramas is attested in the well-known line:

Xenocles () or Zenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. There were two Athenian tragic poets of this name, one the grandfather of the other. No fragments of either are currently known, except for a few words of the elder apparently parodied in Aristophanes' "The Clouds".

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