what do u guys think?
2007-01-29 12:57:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The poets of Ancient Greece were not mythological figures, but actually exsisted, and being men of letters, wrote things down, so there are examples of thier work, statues of thier faces and descriptions of thier lost works by students studying them at a later date.
In comparison, the Phrophets were part of a little backwater tribe who did not write anything down that survived, thus the oldest torah is a greek copy in an orthadox bible, the Apello codex, the oldest Hewbrew text is actually dated 920AD.
Epic poets 2d half of 8th century B.C. - Homer
fl. 633 - Hesiod
Poets of Elegies and Iambics fl. 650 - Archilochus
fl. 650 - Callinus
fl. 640-637 - Tyrtaeus
b. 640 - Solon
fl. 650 - Semonides
fl. 632-629 - Mimnermus
fl. 552-541 - Theognis
fl. 540-537 - Hipponax
Archaic Choral Lyric Poets fl. 650 - Alcman
632/29-556/553 - Stesichorus
Monody b. probably c. 630 - Sappho
b. c. 620 - Alcaeus
fl. c. 533 -Ibycus
b. c. 570 - Anacreon
Later Choral Lyric b. 557/6 - Simonides
b. 522 or 518 - Pindar
Corinna - contemporary of Pindar (Korinna)
b. c. 510 - Bacchylides
Phrophets (aprox dates?) 1020 bce Samuel
975-960 Nathan
870-850 Elijah
850-800 Elisha
750-745 Amos
750 - 745 Hosea
742-700 Isaiah
722-701 Micah
down to 400-450 Jonah
2007-01-29 13:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, a wee bit of a problem lass - how do you define what? Abraham, Genesis 12 is named as the first prophet in the Bible. That puts us at about 1800 b.c. In turn, the Bible Prequel, Gen. 1-11 dates back to his childhood home of Ur and the ancient Ugaritic Gilgamesh Epic.
Both Greek (titans) and the Bible (nephilim) mention semi-divine beings. Who though do you consider the poet(s) of Grecian myth? Myths are deuce awkward to date.
2007-01-29 21:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HMm I don't think you get any reasonable answers. Those not of the faith would say the poets of ancient greece. Those of christian faith will simply say prophets of the bible as there can't be any thing before god created mankind. etc
2007-01-29 21:03:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Hex Vision 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is thought the Trojan War is roughly contemporary with King David (and the Psalms) so earlier Hebrew Scriptures are older again. Babelonian stuff is older still!
2007-01-29 21:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by Tirant 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old prophets were during the Egyptian period so they are older than the Greeks.
2007-01-29 21:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋