In the field of literature, Greeks contributed to Epics, Poetry, Drama and History. ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ are the two works of Homer. These Epics give us a fairly faithful account of the social, economic and political conditions of early Greek Culture. The shorter Greek poems were called Lyrics. Pindar and Sappo were the two lyric poets of Greek Civilization. The drama is the most familiar of the Greek forms of literature. The *** of Greek theatres can be still be seen all over the Aegean region.
The founder of Greek tragedy was Aeschylus, author of ‘Prometheus Bound’ and ‘Agamemnon’. Sophocles, the greatest of the Greek tragedians, wrote ‘Oedipus Rex’, ‘Antigone’ and ‘Electra’. These plays are admired all over the world even today. Euripides the third of the great tragic Poets believed that in life people were more important than Gods.
Hence he concerned himself with the passions and emotions of human beings. One of his best-known plays is the ‘** ’. Aristophanes was the greatest comic poet. World’ first great historian Herodotus, Thucydides who wrote he “Peloponnesian Wars’ and Plutarch known for his biographies ‘Lives of illustrious men’ all lived during this **. Oratory is the art of making public speeches. The most famous orator was Demosthenes.
