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  2. Greek literature - Epic, Drama, Historiography: Conscious as they were of their classical and biblical past, the Byzantines wrote much history. Until the early 7th century a series of historians recounted the events of their own time in classicizing style, with fictitious speeches and set descriptive pieces, in a genre that owed much to the classical Greek historians Thucydides and Polybius.
  3. Tyrtaeus (flourished middle of the 7th century bc, Sparta [Greece]) was a Greek elegiac poet, author of stirring poetry on military themes supposedly composed to help Sparta win the Second Messenian War.. Greek tradition after the 6th century claimed that Tyrtaeus was a schoolmaster from Athens or Miletus, sent to Sparta in reluctant compliance with an oracle to strengthen Spartan morale.
  4. Greek literature - Byzantine, Epic, Poetry: Byzantine literature may be broadly defined as the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders. By late antiquity many of the classical Greek genres, such as drama and choral lyric poetry, had long been obsolete, and all Greek literature affected to some degree an archaizing ...
  5. Seen from this point of view, the Sophistic movement performed a valuable function within Athenian democracy in the 5th century bce.It offered an education designed to facilitate and promote success in public life. All of the Sophists appear to have provided a training in rhetoric and in the art of speaking, and the Sophistic movement, responsible for large advances in rhetorical theory ...
  6. Alcman (flourished 7th century bc, Sparta [Greece]) was a Greek poet who wrote choral lyrics in a type of Doric related to the Laconian vernacular, used in the region that included Sparta.. Alcman's work was divided by the editors of Hellenistic Alexandria (3rd and 2nd centuries bc) into six books, or papyrus rolls, but the poems survived into modern times only in fragments.
  7. ode, ceremonious poem on an occasion of public or private dignity in which personal emotion and general meditation are united.The Greek word ōdē, which has been accepted in most modern European languages, meant a choric song, usually accompanied by a dance.Alcman (7th century bc) originated the strophic arrangement of the ode, which is a rhythmic system composed of two or more lines repeated ...
  8. Deuteronomy, ("Words"), fifth book of the Old Testament, written in the form of a farewell address by Moses to the Israelites before they entered the Promised Land of Canaan.The speeches that constitute this address recall Israel's past, reiterate laws that Moses had communicated to the people at Horeb (Sinai), and emphasize that observance of these laws is essential for the well-being ...
  9. The term 'English literature' refers to the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present, ranging from drama, poetry, and fiction to autobiography and historical writing. Landmark writers range from William Shakespeare and Arundhati Roy to Jane Austen and Kazuo Ishiguro.
  10. Golden Age, 70 bc - ad 18. The Golden Age of Latin literature spanned the last years of the republic and the virtual establishment of the Roman Empire under the reign of Augustus (27 bc - ad 14). The first part of this period, from 70 to 42 bc, is justly called the Ciceronian.It produced writers of distinction, most of them also men of action, among whom Julius Caesar stands out.
  11. Bulgaria is a country occupying the eastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Founded in the 7th century, Bulgaria is one of the oldest states in Europe. Before the creation of the Bulgarian state, the empires of ancient Rome, Greece, and Byzantium were strong presences there.

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