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Introduction
Ancient Greek literature
The periods
Archaic period, to the end of the 6th century
bc
Classical period, 5th and 4th centuries
bc
Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods
The genres
Epic narrative
Lyric poetry
Tragedy
Comedy
History
Rhetoric and oratory
Philosophical prose
Late forms of poetry
Late forms of prose
Byzantine literature
General characteristics
Principal forms of writing
Nonliturgical poetry
Liturgical poetry
Historical works
Rhetoric
Modern Greek literature (after 1453)
Post-Byzantine period
Independence and after
Old Athenian School
Heptanesian School
Demoticism and folklorism, 1880–1922
Literature after 1922
References & Edit History
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