800-700 BC •

Epic Poetry

• Homer

Iliad, Odyssey

,

Homeric Hymns

(Demeter, Apollo, Hermes…) •

Didactic Epic

• Hesiod:

Theogony, Works and Days

Early Greek Lyric 7th-6th 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 (6th 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 (5th 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

• Kratinos

c):

• Pherecrates:

Savages

• Aristophanes:

Birds, Clouds, Frogs, Lysistrata

•

New Comedy

• Menander • Diphilos (Late 4 th c.)

Historiography (5th-4th 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 (4th c.) •

Oratory

• Antiphon • Lysias • Isaios • Isocrates • Demosthenes • • Hypereides

Literary Criticism and Rhetoric

• Gorgias • Aristotle

Hellenistic Poetry and Historiography (3rd -2nd 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 (4th 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 (1st-4th 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

The 19th Century •

The Ionian School:

• Solomos • Kalvos • Valaorites • Laskaratos •

The Old Athenian School

• Soutsos • Rangavis

The New Athenian School •

The New Athenian School

• Palamas • Drosines • Krystalles

20th century poetry •

20 th century Poetry:

• Konstantine Kavafis • Karyotakis • Seferis • Elytis • Ritsos • Karelli • Angelaki-Rooke

20th c. Fiction •

20 th century Fictional Prose:

• Papadiamantis • Delta • Myrivilis • Venezis • Kazantzakis • Tachtsis • Ioannou

Modern Greek Theater/TV •

Modern Greek Theater/TV

• Xenopoulos • Psathas • Melas • Pretenteris