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2 unusual facts about Greek literature


Eustathius of Thessalonica

Of his works, his commentaries on Homer are the most widely referred to: they display an extensive knowledge of Greek literature from the earliest to the latest times.

William Cranston Lawton

He graduated from Harvard in 1873; studied at Berlin in 1882-83, the year before having been a member of the Assos expedition; from 1895 to 1907 was professor of Greek language and literature in Adelphi College, Brooklyn.


Guillaume Budé

Budé was also the author of Annotationes in XXIV. libros Pandectarum (1508), which, by the application of philology and history, had a great influence on the study of Roman law, and of Commentarii linguae Graecae (1529), an extensive collection of lexicographical notes, which contributed greatly to the study of Greek literature in France.

P. E. Easterling

Easterling works mainly on Greek literature, particularly tragedy; she also studies the survival and reception of ancient drama.


see also

Adamantios

Adamantios Korais, humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

During the year 1895-96, he was Professor of Greek Literature at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and during the year 1909-10, Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin.

Chalkokondyles

He taught Greek Literature at the University of Pavia (see Pavia) when he was very young and he translated some works of Cicero.

Dirk Obbink

He is the Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University and is the head of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project.

Gnomic poetry

Easterling, P.E. (series editor), Bernard M.W. Knox (editor), Cambridge History of Classical Literature, v.I, Greek Literature, 1985.

Julianna Barwick

The title of the album references the ancient drug of forgetfulness, found in the works of Greek literature and Edgar Allan Poe, which erases sorrow.

Karl Otfried Müller

In the last years of his life he undertook to prepare, for the English Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a history of Greek literature, which in 1841 appeared posthumously as Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur bis auf das Zeitalter Alexanders (4th ed., revised and continued by Heitz, 1882–84).

Land of Gods

Greece is referred to as the land of the Gods in Greek literature and mythology.

Sherrard

Philip Sherrard, British author, scholar of Modern Greek literature and culture, philosopher, and translator.