Greece

BC 5C: Classical Greek Art

• MYRON
  • Discobolus (c. 460-450 BC)
• PHIDIAS
  • Athena Parthenos (c. 438 BC)
  • Statue of Zeus at Olympia (c. 435 BC)
• POLYKLEITOS
  • Doryphoros (c. 440 BC)
  • Diadumenos (c. 430 BC)

BC 4C: Late Classical Greek Art

• PRAXITELES
  • Aphrodite of Knidos (c. 350 BC)
  • Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (c. 340 BC)
• SCOPAS
  • Meleager (c. 350 BC)

BC 3C – BC 1C: Hellenistic Greek Art

• AGESANDER (of Rhodes)
  • Laocoön and His Sons (c. 40-30 BC)
• APOLLONIUS (of Athens)
  • Boxer at Rest (c. 100-50 BC)

16C: Cretan School (Post-Byzantine)

• THEOTOKOPOULOS Doménikos (EL GRECO)
  • The Dormition of the Virgin (c. 1567)

19C: Greek Neoclassicism

• GYZIS Nikolaos
  • Eros and the Painter (1878)
• LYTRAS Nikiforos
  • The Milkmaid (1870)

20C: Modern Greek Art

• ENGGONOPOULOS Nikos
  • Bolivar (1942)
• MORALIS Yannis
  • Composition (1958)
• TSAROUCHIS Yannis
  • Greek Sailor (1950s)

19C: Ionian School

• MANTZAROS Nikolaos
  • Hymn to Liberty (1828)

20C: Greek National School

• KALOMIRIS Manolis
  • Symphony No. 1 (1907)

20C: Modernism

• SKALKOTTAS Nikos
  • 36 Greek Dances (1931-36)
  • Violin Concerto (1938)

20C: Avant-Garde

• XENAKIS Iannis
  • Metastaseis (1954)
  • Pithoprakta (1956)
  • Persephassa (1969)

20C: Popular and Film Music

• THEODORAKIS Mikis
  • Axion Esti (1960)
  • Zorba the Greek (1964)

BC 8C – AD 3C: Ancient Greek Literature

Myths

• JAMILTON Edith
  • Mythology: Timesless Takes of Gods and Heroes (Mass Market Paperback)

Archaic Period (BC 8C – BC 6C)

• Aesop’s Fables
• HESIOD | epic poetry
  • Thegony
  • Works and Days
• HOMER | epic poetry
  • Iliad
  • Odessey
• ARCHILOCHUS | lyric poetry
  • Poems and Fragments
• SAPPHO | lyric poetry
  • Poems and Fragments
  • Come Close
  • Stung With Love

Classical Period (BC 5C – BC 323)

• PINDAR | lyric poetry
  • Odes of Pindar
  • Olympians
  • Pythians
• PARMENIDES | philosophic poetry
  • Poems and Fragments
• AESCHYLUS | greek tragedy
  • Hiketides
  • Oresteia
    1. Agamemnon
    2. Choephoroi
    3. Eumenides
  • The Persians
  • Prometheus Bound
  • Seven against Thebes
• SOPHOCLES | greek tragedy
  • The Three Theban Plays
    1. Antigone
    2. Oedipus at Colonus
    3. Oedipus Rex
• EURIPIDES | greek tragedy
  • The Bacchae
  • Hippolytus
  • Medea
• ARISTOPHANES | old comedy
  • The Acharnians
  • The Birds
  • The Clouds
  • The Ecclesiazusae
  • The Frogs
  • The Knights
  • Lysistrata
  • Peace
  • The Thesmophoriazusae
  • The Wasps
• HEREDOTUS | history
  • The Histories
• THUCYDIDES | history
  • The Peloponnesian War
• XENOPHON | history
  • Hellenica
  • The Persian Expedition
• PLATO | philosophy
  • The Apology of Socrates
  • Early Socratic Dialogues
  • Phaedo
  • The Republic
  • Sophist
  • The Symposium
  • Theaetetus
• ARISTOTLES | philosophy
  • The Art of Rhetoric
  • Metaphysics
  • Nichomachean Ethics
  • On the Soul
  • Poetics
  • Politics
• DEMOSTHENES | rhetoric
• ISOCRATES | rhetoric
  • Antidosis
• LYSIAS | rhetoric
  • 리시아스의 변론집

Hellenistic Period (BC 323 – BC 31)

• CALLIMACHUS | poetry
• THEOCRITUS | poetry
  • Idylls
• APOLLONIUS RHODIUS | poetry
  • Argonautica
• MENANDER | new comedy
  • Dyskolos
  • Samia
• DEPHILUS | new comedy
• PHILEMON | new comedy
• PLUTARCH | history
  • Parallel Lives
• POLYBIUS | history
  • The Histories
  • The Rise of the Roman Empire
• EPICURUS | philosophy
  • The Art of Happiness

Roman Age (BC 31 – AD 284)

• LONGUS | novels
  • Daphnis and Chloe
• LUKIANOS | novels
  • A True Story
• EPICTETUS | philosophy
  • The Art of Living

20C: Modernism

• ELYTIS Odysseas
  • Axion Esti (1959)
• KAVAFY Constantine P.
  • Poems (1890s-1930s)
• KAZANTZAKIS Nikos
  • Zorba the Greek (1946)
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)
• SEFERIS Giorgos
  • Mythistorema (1935)

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