Authors Flashcards
(9 cards)
Dante Aligheri: Date, Location, Ruler at time, Famous Works, Any Groups/Nicknames?
1265-1321 Italian Pope Boniface VIII Divine Comedy "3 fountains/3 crowns" "Father of the Italian Language" or "The Supreme Poet"
Homer: Date, Location, Famous Works
Classical
850 BC
Greek
Iliad
Odyssey
Virgil: Date Ruler at time Location Famous Works
Classical
80BC-19BC Augustus Caesar Rome Aeneid Bucolics or Eclouges
Aristophanes: Date, Location, Famous Works, Any Groups/Nicknames?
Classical
446BC - 386BC
Athens
Lysistrata & The Frogs
“Father of Comedy” or “Prince of Ancient Comedy”
Euripides: Date, Location, Ruler at time, Famous Works, Any Groups/Nicknames?
Classical
480BC
Athens
Iphigenia at Aulis
Sophocles
Famous work
Classical
Oedipus the king
Aeschylus: Date, Location, ruler/event, Famous Works, Any Groups/Nicknames?
Classical
525BC-456BC
Eleusis: a mystic city
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars)
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Euripides aka the furies)
Prometheus Bound
“Father of Tragedy”
What were the Persian Wars? When did they happen? What did the Greeks call the war?
Classical
499 BC - 449 BC
A series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world.
The Greeks were a fractious political group, and the Persians had a great empire.
Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547 BC thus beginning the empire.
By Greek accounts, enmity between Greek and Persian continued for more than two centuries, culminating in the dissolution of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great; the principal events of the wars, however, unfolded during the two failed Persian expeditions against Greece, in 490 and in 480/479 BC.
The Greeks themselves referred to those wars as the “Median affair”. Although they were perfectly aware that the Achaemenid Empire, their enemy, was ruled by a Persian dynasty, they retained for this empire the name under which they had known it first, that of the Medes.
Who is credited with writing the sonnet first?
Sir Thomas Wyatt
and
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
are both credited with the first sonnet.