¨Literature¨

Greek literature is that which was written by native authors of Greece and the geographic areas of Greek influence. These works are often made in one of the Greek dialects, but not necessarily. It extends throughout all historical periods in which there have been Greek writers.

Byzantine literature is written in medieval Greek, during the reign of the Byzantine EmpireIs an expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized the Eastern Roman Empire during the Christian Middle Ages. Combines Greek and Christian civilization on the common ground the Roman political system, located in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Middle East.
Byzantine literature from four different cultural elements: the Greek, Christian, Roman and Eastern, whose character combined. The Oriental imagination involves the contributions of the Hellenistic intellectual culture, the Roman government organization and the emotional life of Christianity.