I am the servant of Ares, Lord of Battle, and I know the lovely gift of the Muses. In ancient Greece, poetry was used in art , music , and education .
Memorization is the fundamental means to preserve ideas and traditions in a culture.
Poetry that is memorized and then recited is called oral poetry. Epic poetry was the earliest form which the Greeks created. The oldest examples of such poetry dealt with legends concerning heroes . Homer was the best known epic poet for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey . Very soon after Homer's epic, the Greek lyric poets becomes very popular.