Greek Lit Flashcards

1
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Wrote the apology, student of Socrates

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Plato

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2
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Transcribed Pericles funeral oration, really pro Athens

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Theucydides

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3
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Poet who wrote poems for people who won olympics

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Pindar

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4
Q

Wrote Oedipus Tyrannos

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Sophocles

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5
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Female poet from lesbo, love poems

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Sappho

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6
Q

Cowardly, believed men should preserve their life instead of dying honorably

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Archilochus

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7
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Honorable, believed men should fight until their dying breath

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Calinus

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8
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Wrote most famous Greek epic poems, wrote in dactyllic hexameter

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Homer

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