Greece & Greek Culture Educational Posters & Prints, pg 2/2

Aeschylus
b. c, 525 BC, Greece
d. c. 456 BC

Aeschylus is often recognized as the father of tragedy, the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive (along with Sophocles and Euripdes). His inspiration to create plays came from Dionysus in a dream. Aeschylus also was a soldier in the Battle of Marathon against Persian King Darius.

• The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
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Sophocles
b. c.496 BC; Greece
d. 406 BC

• The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Euripides
b. 9-23-480 BC; Salamis
d. 406 BC

• Ten Plays by Euripides

Socrates

“Wisdom begins with wonder.”

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Aristotle
b. c. 384 BC; Greece
d. c. 322 BC

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Daedalus & Icarus

The name Daedalus means “Cunning Worker”, whose most cunning work may have been the wings he created from feathers and wax so he and his young son Icarus could escape from King Minos who had imprisoned them to prevent the secret of the labyrinth leaving Crete.

Daedalus is described first by Homer, and then by Ovid, with creating labyrinths to keep the Minotaur, a ferocious half man - half bull creature that was the offspring of a god in the form of a bull and female human.

Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, avenged his father's murder by his mother by killing his mother.

A krater is a very large vase that was used to mix wine and water for a ‘symposium’, which originally meant a drinking party.

The Three Graces

In Greek mythology the goddesses of "Beauty", "Mirth", and "Good Cheer" (Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia) are collectively called the Three Graces.

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The ancient Greek poet Homer is said to be the author of the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, however, current scholarship no longer views "Homer" as a historic individual but rather as a personfication that evolved over generations to hold the oral traditions and the collective works of many poets.

• The Iliad and Odyssey [BOX SET]
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Aesop-
(ca. 620 - 560 BC)

Aesop's Fables are short stories using personified animals to tell a cautionary tale, a moral lesson, a rule of behavior. Over 200 fables have been attributed to Aesop, who was possibly a Greek slave of African descent c. 600 BC. The word Aesop means Ethiop in Ancient Greek.

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Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy

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Odysseus and the Sirens, Athenian Red Figure Stamnos Vase by The Siren Painter

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Buildings on Top of and Below Volcanic Cliffs (Thira), Santorini Island, Greece Fine Art Print

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Windmills on the Island of Mykonons, Greece

Zorba the Greek (1946) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis. The character ‘Alexis Zorba’ represents the Dionysus spirit of ecstatic, spontaneous will to live opposed to the young Greek intellectual narrator's order and rationality represented by the Greek god Apollo (see Nietzsche).

Kazantzakis (b. 2-18-1883, Crete; d. 10-26-1957, Germany), considered by some the most important Greek philosopher of the 20th century, his epitaph reads "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."

Maria Callas
b. 12-27-1923; NYC
d. 9-16-1977; Paris

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XX Anniversaire du Retablissement de Jeux Olympiques 1894-1914

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Hellenic Air

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