Greek point

Homeric Age, Antique Age, Classical Age, Hellenistic Age. Ancient Greek literature is the source of the whole western literature and the first peak of European literature. Ancient Greek literature reflects the real life in Europe during the transition from clan society to slavery society, especially the people in the ancient world's thinking about the relationship between war and peace and between man and nature.

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Homeric Age: Also called Heroic Age, (BC 165438+ 1 century to the 9th century) is the initial development stage of ancient Greece. The main literary achievements are myths and epics. Homer era was named after the famous Homer Epic, which was a transitional period from clan commune system to slavery society in ancient Greece.

Antique era: this is the formation and initial prosperity of the Greek slave city-state. The main achievement in literature is to express Sui poems and fables. Like other ancient civilizations or regions, Greece has a long tradition of poetry, with a wide variety of poems and many famous poets in history. This period is also known as the "Great Migration Period". The prosperity of lyric poetry and the decline of epic poetry are related to the gathering of tribes to polis, the formation of small families, the strengthening of individual consciousness, the weakening of collective consciousness and the increasing richness of people's emotional world. The lyrics come from folk songs and are sung with music. There are various genres, such as elegy (two-pipe song), Qin Ge, pastoral, satire and so on. Qin Ge has made the greatest achievement.

Classical era: It was the heyday of slavery in Greece, which was called "classical period" in history. Athens at that time was the political, economic and cultural center of Greece, so it was also called the "Athens era". Among them, the reign of Perikles (443 BC-429 BC) was a highly developed stage of democracy in Athens, which was called the "golden age". The main achievements of classical literature are drama, prose and literary theory.

Hellenistic era: refers to the end of 4th century BC to 2nd century BC. During this period, Macedonia conquered the whole of Greece, and Greek culture spread widely in the East and communicated with the East. The Greek cultural center gradually moved from Athens to Alexandria, Egypt, and its science, art and philosophy were quite developed. Academic circles attached great importance to book arrangement and built unprecedented libraries and museums. Greek became the common language in these places, so this period was called "Hellenistic period"