<P> In ancient Greece , the epics of Homer , who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey , and Hesiod , who wrote Works and Days and Theogony , are some of the earliest , and most influential , of Ancient Greek literature . Classical Greek genres included philosophy , poetry , historiography , comedies and dramas . Plato and Aristotle authored philosophical texts that are the foundation of Western philosophy , Sappho and Pindar were influential lyric poets , and Herodotus and Thucydides were early Greek historians . Although drama was popular in Ancient Greece , of the hundreds of tragedies written and performed during the classical age , only a limited number of plays by three authors still exist : Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides . The plays of Aristophanes provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy , the earliest form of Greek Comedy , and are in fact used to define the genre . </P>
what type of literature from what period of history constitutes our earliest source of greek myths
Ancient Greek literature