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430 BCE
Pericles Funeral Oration
The Athenian leader, Pericles, wrote this speech after a battle in the Peloponnesian War. It was to comfort the parents of the fallen soldier and also to recruit others to join the army. -
Period: 500 to 1500
Medieval
Middle Ages -
700
The Odyssey
One of the epic poems Homer wrote, about "Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope's hand and Ithaca's throne long enough for Odysseus to return." -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissance
The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rom. "rebirth" -
Period: to
Enlightenment
European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition -
Period: to
Romantic Period
an artistic, literary, musical, cultural and intellectual movement originating in Europe -
Period: to
Realism
artistic movement in France -
Period: to
Transcendental Movement
a reaction to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time. -
Period: to
Victorian Period
the period of Queen Victoria's reign in the UK -
A Doll's House
About a lady that used to be treated like a doll by her husband and finally stood up for herself and left him. It all started when she illegally borrowed money to take her husband on a trip, and later he found out. -
Period: to
The Bloomsbury Group
was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists -
The Second Coming
Was a famous poem about the world being hectic before Christ came. One of the stanza's help gave "Things Fall Apart" its name -
The Great Divorce
"The Great Divorce is a theological dream vision by C. S. Lewis, in which he reflects on the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell. The working title was Who Goes Home? but the final name was changed at the publisher's insistence." -Wikipedia -
Period: to
The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. -
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart's main downfall was the fall of the protagonist, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture. Okonkwo wanted to be nothing like his father so it drived him to do some bad actions. -
Period: to
Post Modernism
style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”. -
A Thousand Pieces of Gold
It begins with a girl named Lalu in China with her poor family. Her father always called her "a thousand pieces of gold." yet he is forced to sell her. She is then sold again and is shipped to America where she changes her name to "Polly" she falls in love and gets married after she is won back in a poker game.