Summary: In this episode, we discuss the changes in literary creation that took place in the 7th and 6th centuries BC; and part 1 of 2 on the influential people whose writings give us incite into the economic, social, and political happenings that reshaped archaic age Greece ca. 800-700 BC - The "Epic Cycle" was constructed, which includes the works of "Homer" ca. 750-700 BC - Hesiod flourished ca. 700-675 BC - Terpander and Thaletas instituted musical schools at Sparta ca. 680 BC - Archilochus wrote the first non-epic poetry on the historical record ca. 675-650 BC - Alcman, Tyrtaeus, Callinus, and Semonides all flourished ca. 630-600 BC - Mimnermus flourished; Arian introduced the dithyramb to Corinth
