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Aesop's Fables
collection of fables credited to Aesop
ancient Greek literature
literature written in ancient Greece or in the Ancient Greek language
classical philology
academic discipline
The Lion and the Mouse
one of Aesop's Fables
Books of the Maccabees
group of ancient Hebrew books
Atticism
Atticism (meaning "favouring Attica", the region of Athens in Greece) was a rhetorical movement that began in the first quarter of the 1st century BC. It may also refer to the wordings and phrasings typical of this movement, in contrast with various contemporary forms of Koine Greek (both literary and vulgar), which continued to evolve in directions guided by the common usages of Hellenistic Greek.
epitome
An epitome (; , from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. Epitomacy represents "to the degree of." An abridgment differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.
Book loss in Late Antiquity
Asiatic style
ancient Greek rhetorical tendency in the 3rd century BCE
stichometry
thumb|300px|A List of Total Line Counts for Christian Texts: The title is 'Versus Scribturarum Sanctarum' or 'Lines of Holy Scriptures.' The second line says 'Genesis Versus IIIId' or 'Genesis Lines 4500.' The third line says 'Exodus Versus IIIdcc (= 3700). From the Codex Claromontanus (5th or 6th century AD), Leaf 467v, National Library, Paris, France.
chreia
The chreia or chria () was, in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, both a genre of literature and one of the progymnasmata.
consolatio
The consolatio or consolatory oration is a type of ceremonial oratory, typically used rhetorically to comfort mourners at funerals. It was one of the most popular classical rhetoric topics, and received new impetus under Renaissance humanism.