{"id":5,"date":"2007-12-10T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/literature-and-language\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:46:50","slug":"literature-and-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/literature-and-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature and Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An excellent introduction to the Poets, Playwrights, Gods, and Heroes of Ancient Greece can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/ancientgreece-litmyth.html\">Ancient Greek Literature &amp; Mythology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livius.org\/gi-gr\/greeks\/authors.html\">Greek Authors<\/a>, you meet the writers whose works live on today.<\/p>\n<p>A very useful guide to <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/%7EPoseidon64\/\">Greek Mythology<\/a> &#8212; with their stories and some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>As does the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythweb.com\/encyc\/\"> Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very comprehensive guide to the subject can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/\"> Theoi Project: A Guide to Greek Gods, Spirits &amp; Monsters <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students will find that <a href=\"http:\/\/messagenetcommresearch.com\/myths\/names.html\">Greek Mythology from the Illiad to the Fall of the last Tyrant<\/a> is a very useful reference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diomedes.com\/troyimages.html\">Images of the Trojan War Myth<\/a> Edited by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Associate Professor of Classics, Temple University displays Greek vases that depict scenes related to the Trojan war.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/platea.pntic.mec.es\/%7Ecvera\/aplicacion\/telemaque\/carte\/old-index.html\"> Classical Mythology by Geography<\/a> gives students interested in classical mythology &#8220;a way to associate the stories with the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythencyclopedia.com\/index.html\"> Encyclopedia of Myths<\/a> provides a comprehnsive overview of myths from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livius.org\/ei-er\/epic_cycle\/epic_cycle.html\">Epic Cycle w<\/a>as a set of twelve archaic epic poems, known to every educated Greek. The best-known being the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livius.org\/ho-hz\/homer\/homer_iliad.html\">Iliad <\/a>and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livius.org\/ho-hz\/homer\/homer_odyssey.html\"> Odyssey<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livius.org\/ho-hz\/homer\/homer.html\">Homer<\/a>, which are also the only epics that have survived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeka.com\/greece-myths\/amazons.htm\">Greece Myths: The legendary Amazons<\/a> provides an introduction to the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The role of Amazons in Greek literature is discussed in greater detail in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/wmn\/rca\/rca02.htm\">The Amazons in Greek Legend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An excellent introduction to the Poets, Playwrights, Gods, and Heroes of Ancient Greece can be found in Ancient Greek Literature &amp; Mythology In Greek Authors, you meet the writers whose works live on today. A very useful guide to Greek Mythology &#8212; with their stories and some pictures. As does the Encyclopedia of Greek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}