Context: As a more urban culture developed, academies provided a means of transmission for speculative and philosophical literature in early civilizations, resulting in the prevalence of literature in Ancient China, Ancient India, Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome. Many works of earlier periods, even in narrative form, had a covert moral or didactic purpose, such as the Sanskrit Panchatantra or the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Drama and satire also developed as urban culture provided a larger public audience, and later readership, for literary production. Lyric poetry (as opposed to epic poetry) was often the speciality of courts and aristocratic circles, particularly in East Asia where songs were collected by the Chinese aristocracy as poems, the most notable being the Shijing or Book of Songs. Over a long period, the poetry of popular pre-literate balladry and song interpenetrated and eventually influenced poetry in the literary medium.

Question: What are some classical societies whose literature is still studied today?
Answer: Ancient China, Ancient India, Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome

Question: Besides entertainment or informational value, classic literature also possessed what quality?
Answer: a covert moral or didactic purpose

Question: What societal evolution helped to develop drama and satire by providing a ready audience?
Answer: urban culture

Question: From what settings did lyric poetry derive?
Answer: courts and aristocratic circles

Question: What is an example of a collection of classic Chinese lyric poetry?
Answer: the Shijing or Book of Songs

Question: Literature from Ancient China, Cambodia, Ancient India, Persia and what other two societies are still studied today?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Two works that had either overt moral or didactic purpose are what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What genres developed as rural culture grew and provided a larger audience?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Epic poetry was a specialty of what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In West Asia, songs were collected by what people as poems?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did academies provide when a more suburban culture developed?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Besides Ancient Japan, what classical societies have literature that is still studied today?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What genres developed as suburban culture provided a bigger audience?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who collected songs as poems from West Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was epic poetry the specialty of?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did urban culture provide that helped poetry and satire?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What were poems in East Asia collected as?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who collected songs in Ancient Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable