Ancient Greek Literature

What is an EPIC?

• a song about great success
• story about the life of a heroic person
• a poem about ordinary people
• a poem about the Greek poet Homer

He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

• Homer
• Sappho
• Aesop
• Cyrus the Great

She was a famous lyric poet.

• Aesop
• Homer
• Sappho
• Cleopatra 

He was famous for his fables.

• Homer
• Sappho
• Aesop
• Zeus

These are short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live.

• Tales
• Literature
• Myths
• Fables

:  The greatest of all Greek warriors from the story the Iliad.

• Troy
• Achilles
• Hercules