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12 Μαρ 2013 · First and foremost are the qualities of enargeia (vividness), sapheneia (clarity), and phantasia (mental image), which, taken together, aim to turn listeners (or readers) into viewers and to evoke an emotional response through an appeal to the immediacy of an imagined presence.
A figure of speech (σχήμα λόγου) or rhetorical figure[1] is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words.
26 Φεβ 2020 · Did you know that many common English words have origins in Greek mythology? From “atlas” to “zephyr,” learn about the fascinating Greek roots of 29 English words.
11 Δεκ 2019 · Greek literature in its recorded form began and ended with two heavy epic “blows” that were separated by more than a millennium: Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey (eighth/seventh century BCE) at the beginning, and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (c. 500 CE) at the end. In between, a continuous stream of epic production not only secured the survival of ...
The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as having some relation to the Mycenaean era.
11 Οκτ 2017 · To fully understand and appreciate Greek literature one must separate it, divide the oral epics from the tragedies and comedies as well as the histories from the philosophies. Greek literature can also be divided into distinct periods: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The literature of the Archaic era mostly centered on myth; part history ...
27 Δεκ 2018 · I challenge myself here to write up seven elementary “plot outlines”—I call them overviews—for seven Greek tragedies: (1) Agamemnon and (2) Libation-Bearers and (3) Eumenides, by Aeschylus; (4) Oedipus at Colonus and (5) Oedipus Tyrannus, by Sophocles; (6) Hippolytus and (7) Bacchae (or Bacchic Women), by Euripides.
