Aristophanes
Aristophanes. He is one of the best comedy writers ever. His highly critical and satyr humor was popularized in antiquity and even today his works are still performed with the same comic …
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Arato de Solos
Arato de Solos . He was born in 310 and died in 240 BC. Born in Soli, ( Cilicia ), Greek writer , poet . He was a disciple of the Stoics and wrote the didactic poem Los phenomennos , a compendium of the cosmological …
Nikos Kazantzakis
Niko Kazantzakis. Greek storyteller, poet, and playwright whose novels are extremely popular. His first novel was The Serpent and the Lily and his first play Apunta el día . Summary [ hide ] 1 Biographical synthesis 1 Another stage of …
Konstantinos Kavafis
Konstantinos Kavafis ( Alexandria , 29 as April as 1863 – Alexandria , 29 as April as 1933 ). Greek writer. Kavafis’s poetry enjoyed little diffusion in Greece during his lifetime. However, his use of colloquialism; his open treatment of homosexuality ; his esoteric sense of history; his cynicism in politics; their creation of …
Herodotus
Herodotus . Greek historian, considered the father of historiography. He traveled throughout the entire Mediterranean world . He compiled his findings in a work entitled “Histories” which provides valuable information about ancient Greece , North Africa and the Middle East . Summary [ hide ] …
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus is the Greek name of a mythical character that was associated with a syncretism of the Egyptian god Dyehuty (Toth in Greek) and the Hellenic god Hermes , or the …
Paul I of Greece
Paul I of Greece . King of the Hellenes ( 1947 – 1964 ). He spent most of his life in exile for the Greek alliance with Germany during the First World War . He was a member of the …