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Greek (ελληνικά, IPA: [eliniˈka] or ελληνική γλώσσα, IPA: [eliniˈci ˈɣlosa]), an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records."Greek language," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Greek literature refers to writings composed in areas of Greek influence, typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects, throughout the whole period in which the Greek-speaking people have existed."Greek literature," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

This section only includes English translations of Greek texts, and works written in English. For texts in Greek, see Greek Wikisource.

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Greek language

The Greek language has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BCE. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for most of its history, although Linear B and other systems were used previously."Greek language," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Wikisource hosts copies of the following works on the Greek language:

"Greek Language," by Peter Giles in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
A Greek-English Lexicon, by Liddell & Scott (1901)
Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, by William Watson Goodwin (1890)
The Vocabulary of Menander, by Donald Blythe Durham (1913)
"The Dialects of North Greece", by Herbert Weir Smyth (1887)
"On the Homeric Use of the word Ἥρως", The Philological Museum 2: 72–92 (1833)
"On a Passage of the Philoctetes of Sophocles from the German of Welcker", The Philological Museum 2: 468–472 (1833)
"The Termination -κός, as used by Aristophanes for Comic Effect", Am. Jour. of Phil. 31(4): 428–444 (1910)
"The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", Am. Journ. of Phil. 37(4): 459–465 (1916)

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Greek literature

Wikisource hosts copies of the following general works on Greek literature:

History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: to the period of Isocrates, 2nd ed., by K. O. Müller, trans. George Lewis (1847)
A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1901)
"Greek Literature," by James David Bourchier in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
"Byzantine Literature," by Karl Dieterich in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"On the Origin of a Written Greek Literature" in Littell's Living Age, 145 (1868)

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Literature collections

Wikisource hosts the following collections of Greek literature:

Loeb Classical Library, by Harvard University Press
Masterpieces of Greek Literature (transcription project)
Vol. I, Greece of The World's Famous Orations
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

Child portal: Ancient Greek drama

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Literary criticism

"Aristophanes as a Student of Society" by Arthur Fairbanks, The American Journal of Sociology 8(5): 655–666, (1903)
Euripides the Rationalist, by Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1895)
"On the Irony of Sophocles", by C. Thirlwall, Philological Museum, 2: 483–537 (1833)
On the Sublime, by Longinus and trans. Herbert Lord Havell (1890)

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Byzantine and modern Greek literature

Byzantine literature may be defined as the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written within the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders. It forms the second period in the history of Greek literature, though popular Byzantine literature and early Modern Greek literature, which begin in the 11th century, are indistinguishable."Byzantine literature," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

The Alexiad, 1182 by Anna Komnene
"Bridge of Arta", anonymous work

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Greek authors

For a more extensive listing, see: Category:Greek authors

Epic poets:
Homer

Hesiod
Lyric poets:
Archilochus

Pindar

Sappho

Theocritus
Dramatists:
Aeschylus

Aristophanes

Euripides

Menander

Sophocles

Orators
Demosthenes

Pericles
Philosophers:
Aristotle

Plato
Historians:
Herodotus

Plutarch

Procopius

Thucydides

Xenophon
Fable writers
Aesop

Longus

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Greek orations

Greece, vol. I of The World's Famous Orations (1907)
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, by Arthur Pickard
The Speeches of Thucydides, by R. C. Jebb (1907)
"Pericles's Funeral Oration"

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Greek philosophy

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period to the time of the Roman Empire. Philosophy was used to make sense out of the world in a non-religious way. It dealt with many varied subjects, including logic, rhetoric, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics.

Aristotle: Metaphysics • Nicomachean Ethics • The Poetics

Plato: Apology • The Republic • Symposium

Child portals: Ancient Greek philosophy • Socrates

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