Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that...
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Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest...
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Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. It represents...
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support, you may see errors in display. Ancient Meitei literature, also termed as Old Manipuri literature, is literature written in the Old Manipuri language...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia)...
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intrinsic to humans. Epic poetry is recognized as the pinnacle of ancient literature. These works are long narrative poems that recount the feats of mythic...
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products of a literate society". All ancient Greek literature was to some degree oral in nature, and the earliest literature was completely so. Homer's epic...
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Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell, 2005), pp. 44–57. Christopher Pelling, "The Triumviral Period," in The Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan...
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needed][verification needed] The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், Sanga ilakkiyam) is the ancient Tamil literature of the period in the history of south...
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Greek literature (Greek: Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία) dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today...
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Sutra (redirect from Sutra literature)
sutras. Their use and ancient roots are attested by sutras being mentioned in larger genre of ancient non-Vedic Hindu literature called Gatha, Narashansi...
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history of ancient Tamil Nadu and Kerala (then known as Tamilakam), and parts of Sri Lanka from c. 300 BCE to 300 CE. It was named after the literature of poets...
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texts were composed in ancient India, others were composed in Central Asia, East Asia or Southeast Asia. Sanskrit literature is vast and includes religious...
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Homosexuality in ancient Rome often differs markedly from the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual"...
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Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly...
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Pederasty (redirect from Pederasty in ancient Rome)
seclusion of women. Pederasty was both idealized and criticized in ancient literature and philosophy. The argument has recently been made that idealization...
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lost to the ocean, as described in ancient Tamil and Sanskrit literature. According to these writers, an ancient Tamil civilisation existed on Lemuria...
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Vrishni (section Vrishnis in ancient literature)
five legendary, deified heroes who are found in the literature and archaeological sites of ancient India. Their earliest worship is attestable in the clan...
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the first judgement made of ancient literature; types of literature were not clearly defined, and all Sumerian literature incorporated poetic aspects...
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Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its...
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Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή, Hellēnikḗ; [hellɛːnikɛ́ː]) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around...
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Classics (redirect from Classical Literature)
refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman...
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seclusion of women. Pederasty was both idealized and criticized in ancient literature and philosophy. The argument has recently been made that idealization...
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Ancient Roman civilisation has contributed to modern language, religion, society, technology, law, politics, government, warfare, art, literature, architecture...
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Vedic Sanskrit (redirect from Ancient Sanskrit)
language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature compiled...
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phonology Ancient Hebrew language Latin Ancient Macedonian language Ancient literature Ancient Egyptian literature Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek...
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Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The...
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of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. This list covers...
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of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. This list covers...
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