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Banquo. Lord Banquo / ˈbæŋkwoʊ /, the Thane of Lochaber, is a semi-historical character in William Shakespeare 's 1606 play Macbeth. In the play, he is at first an ally of Macbeth (both are generals in the King's army) and they meet the Three Witches together. After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he ...
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as ...
Hesiod ( / ˈhiːsiəd / HEE-see-əd or / ˈhɛsiəd / HEH-see-əd; [ 1] Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. [ 2][ 3] Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety.
Greek literature ( Greek: Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία) dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving written works until works from approximately the fifth century AD.
Ceridwen or Cerridwen ( pronounced [kɛrˈɪdwɛn] ⓘ Ke-RID-wen) was an enchantress in Welsh medieval legend. She was the mother of a hideous son, Mordfran, and a beautiful daughter, Creirwy. Her husband was Tegid Foel and they lived near Bala Lake ( Llyn Tegid) in north Wales. Medieval Welsh poetry refers to her as possessing the cauldron of ...
Works and Days. Works and Days ( Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, romanized : Érga kaì Hēmérai) [ a] is a didactic poem written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in ...
Alcaeus and Sappho ( Brygos Painter, Attic red-figure kalathos, c. 470 BC) Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek . It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the " Lyric Age of Greece ", [ 1] but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial ...
Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama ( comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play ), lyric poetry, and epic. The genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways that Aristotle describes: Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter, and melody.