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Homeric or Heroic Period
(1200bc- 800bc) |
Greek Legends passed along orally, pirates, princes, and sea traders. This includes works of Homer "The Ililad" and "The Odyssey".
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Works include Homer's "The Ililad" and "The Odyssey"
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Classical Greek Period
(800-200bc) |
Includes Greek writers, playwrites, and philosophers such as Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles. Includes The fifth century known as the Golden Age of Greece, the age of polis, individual city-state, and democracy.
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Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles
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Classical Roman Period (200 bc - 455 ce)
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Greece's culture gives way to Roman power when Rome conquers Greece in 146 ce. Within period is also the Roman Imperial period.
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writers include Ovid, Horace, and Virgil.
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Patristic Period (70 ce-455 ce)
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Period in which Saint Jerome first compiles the Bible, and Christianity spreads. Early christians writings appear. Barbarians attack Rome and city falls.
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Works by Saint Augustine, Terullian, Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome.
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Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (428-1066)
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The so-called Dark Ages occur. Early Old English epic poems originate.
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Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer
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