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What is important about Greek Poetry and Fables? How long have they been around? Who have they influenced?

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What is important about Greek Poetry and Fables? How long have they been around? Who have they influenced?

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Greek Poetry and Fable have been around for a long time. Poetry and Fables were very important to Greek culture. They were best known for their poetry and dramas. Things such as the Odyssey and Iliad have been remade many times and been made into many things, which are a part of our own cultural. Poems and fables have influenced many modern stories and even affects people everyday life. For example, fables teach lessons and those lessons could be used by someone today, in everyday life.

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An epic is a series of long poems telling of heroic deeds. Some famous epics are the Odyssey and Iliad.

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Who is Homer? What did he write? Why were his writings important? 

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Who is Homer? What did he write? Why were his writings important? 

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Homer was a writer in Ancient Greek times. He wrote the Odyssey and Iliad. His writing were important because they told great stories, that were important to Greek culture and important today. His epics have taught us about Ancient Greece.

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What was the Iliad? Who wrote it? What was the plot? Why was this important? 

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What was the Iliad? Who wrote it? What was the plot? Why was this important? 

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The Iliad was the poem of when a prince of Troy kidnapped the wife of the king of Sparta. The Greeks were mad so the brother of the Spartan king lead the attack on Troy. The poem explains other events in the Trojan War. Homer wrote this poem. This was important because it kept a record of these events and it also taught people lessons and about the event.

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What was the Odyssey? Who wrote it? What was the plot? Why was this important?

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What was the Odyssey? Who wrote it? What was the plot? Why was this important?

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The Odyssey was the poem of Odysseus’s journey back home from     this war. They also looked 0n epics of history as well. There were storms, witches, and giants in his adventure back home. Homer wrote this poem as well! This adventure took ten years to get him home. It gave people a peek into the past with a cast of heroes. It also taught lessons like loyalty and value and much more.

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A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson. Aesop's famous are very famous fables, and are heard often today.

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Aesop was a greek slave who lived in 550 BCE and he wrote famous fables that teach us lessons. In his fables he had animals that acted like people. They were humorous, but it always had a moral. These fables became part or Greece’s oral traditions and without Aesop Greece would miss out on some of their oral traditions that they would have had with him.

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List and explain some of Aesop’s famous fables. What was the important message in each one? 

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List and explain some of Aesop’s famous fables. What was the important message in each one? 

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One fable was “The Tortoise and the Hare” and in this fable you learn the moral of, “slow and steady wins the race”. Another fable was “The Peacock”; the moral is, “Do not “sacrifice your freedom for the sake of pomp and show.” The last fable, “Belling the Cat”, teaches the lesson “It is one thing to say something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it”.

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More Example of Aesop's Fables and Lessons

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More Example of Aesop's Fables and Lessons

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In "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" the lesson is, "The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit."

In the fable, "The Wolf and the Kid" the lesson is, "Do not let anything turn you from your purpose".

Another fable is, "A Raven and a Swan" and the lesson from this fable is, "A change of habits will not alter nature".

The last fable today is called, "The Two Pots" and the lesson from that is, "Equals make the best friends."

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Fables have had many impacts today. They are seen in many bookstores and seen on tv. They are important stories and are apart of our culture. The stories also have lessons, and those lessons can help people to day in their everyday life. Fables are very important.

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Other example of Epics and Poetry  are Theogony, Aethiopis, and Cypria. There are many different poems and epics from Ancient Greece.