During the Archaic period, there is a notable great flourishing of poetry and philosophy which morphologically had just started to distinguish themselves from the poetic standard of speech. The great social, economic and political changes combined with the broad dissemination of writing, the variety of incentives and the experimental disposition that govern the Archaic world, constituted the most important factors that led to this flourishing. The epic, was worthily represented in Hesiod although works of the standard of Homer were not created. However, the form that rapidly developed with great diversity was lyric poetry, which met the new demands. Towards the end of the period another kind, of poetry was formed, dramatic, which reached its apex during the Classical period.