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Achilles actor Aeolian Aeschy Aeschylus Alexandrian Apollo Aristophanes Aristotle artistic Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attic prose beautiful became beginning belonged Boeotia born called century chief choral chorus citizen Comedy death Delphi Demosthenes dialect dialogue Dionysus Dorian earliest early elegiac elegy epic poetry Epictetus Euripides extant father festival fragments genius goddess gods Greece Greek literature Hellenism Heracles Herodotus heroes Hesiod Homeric poems honour hymns iambic poetry Iliad Iliad and Odyssey Ionian Ionic Ionic dialect Isocrates king language later Lesbos literary lived Lyric Poetry Megara modern moral natural noble odes Odyssey Oedipus orator oratory Orestes Persian Philosophy Pindar Plato play poet poet's political Polybius probably Rhetoric Roman Rome sacred satire Sicily Simonides Socrates song Sophocles Spartan speech spirit Stesichorus story style sung temple Thebes Thessaly thought Thucydides tion Tragedy tragic Troy verse victory worship writing wrote Xenophon Zeus