Ancient Greek Poetry - Further Reading

Further Reading

Beye, Charles Rowan (1987). Ancient Greek Literature and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-1874-7.
Easterling, P.E., and Knox, B.M.W., (1985). The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek literature: Volume 1. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-21042-9.
Flacelière, Robert (1964). A Literary History of Greece. (Translated by Douglas Garman). Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co.
Gutzwiller, Kathryn (2007). A guide to Hellenistic literature. Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-23322-9.
Hadas, Moses (1950). A History of Greek Literature. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Lesky, Albin (1966). A history of Greek literature. Translated by James Willis and Cornelis de Heer. Indianapolis / Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 0-87220-350-6.
Schmidt, Michael (2004). The first poets: lives of the ancient Greek poets. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-64394-0.
C. A. Trypanis (1981). Greek Poetry from Homer to Seferis. University of Chicago Press.
Whitmarsh, Tim (2004). Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 0-7456-2792-7.

Greek language — ελληνική γλώσσα

Origin

Pre-Greek substrate
Graeco-Armenian
Graeco-Aryan

History

Proto-Greek (c. 3rd millenium BC)
Mycenaean Greek (c. 1600–1100 BC)
Ancient Greek (c. 800–300 BC)
Koine Greek (c. 300 BC–AD 330)
Medieval Greek (c. 330–1453)
Modern Greek (since 1453)

Alphabet

History
Orthography
Cyrillization
Romanization
Archaic forms
Diacritics
Numerals
Linear B
Cypriot syllabary

Letters	Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Eta Theta Iota Kappa Lambda Mu Nu Xi Omicron Pi Rho Sigma Tau Upsilon Phi Chi Psi Omega Obsolete: Digamma Heta Koppa San Sampi

Phonology

Ancient Greek (accent)
Koine Greek
Modern Greek

Grammar

Ancient Greek (tables)
Modern Greek

Varieties

Ancient	Aeolic Arcadocypriot Attic–Ionic Doric Homeric Locrian Pamphylian Macedonian

Modern	Cappadocian Misthiotica Cretan Cypriot Demotic Himariote Italian Calabrian Griko Katharevousa Maniot Mariupolitan Pontic Tsakonian Yevanic

Literature

Ancient Greek
Byzantine
Modern Greek

Promotion and study

Hellenic Foundation for Culture
Center for the Greek language

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