Portal:Greek language and literature

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 on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
— Excerpted fromWikisource 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)
- "On the Homeric Use of the word Ἥρως", The Philological Museum, vol. 2 (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)
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)

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
- "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)
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 on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
— Excerpted from- The Alexiad, 1182 by Anna Komnene
- "Bridge of Arta", anonymous work
- 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"

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
Epic poetry — Iliad • Odyssey • Theogony • Works and Days
Lyric poetry — Anacreontea • Epinikia • "Hymn to Venus" • "To His Soul"
Child portals: Ancient Greek drama • Odes of Pindar
Related portal: Ancient poetry
Additional subjects covered by Greek writings.
Child portals: Greek science and mathematics
Related portals: Ancient Greek history • Greek religion • Bible • Pre-Nicene Christianity
For a more extensive listing, see: Category:Works originally in Greek
- Greek Wikisource
- Subclass PA on Project Gutenberg
- Call number PA on the Online Books Page
See also
- Portal:Greece
- Portal:Ancient Greece (History)