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Alcestis
Alcestis (Gr: Alkestis) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first produced at the Athens City Dionysia dramatic festival in 438...
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Andromache (Euripides)
Andromache is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first produced some time between about 428 and 424 BCE. It dramatizes the plight...
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Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Gr: Hekabe) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, written around 424 BCE. The story takes place just after the Trojan War...
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Heracleidae (Euripides)
Heracleidae or The Children of Heracles (Gr: Herakleidai) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first produced around 430 or 429 ...
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Hippolytus (Euripides)
Hippolytus (Gr: Hippolytos) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first produced at the Athens City Dionysia in 428 BCE, where it...
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Medea (Euripides)
Medea (Gr: Medeia) is a tragedy written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, and particularly Medea's r...
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Alphabetical List of Authors
Aeschylus - Tragic playwright, 6th–5th century BCE Aesop - Fabulist, 7th–6th century BCE Anonymous (Beowulf) - Old English, c. 8th century CE Apoll...
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Index of Important Characters
Character Appearances Achilles Homer: Iliad; Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses Aegeus Euripides: Medea; Ovid: Metamorpho...
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Index of Individual Works
Acharnians - Comedy, Aristophanes, 425 BCE Aeneid - Epic poem, Vergil, 19 BCE Aesop's Fables - Fables, Aesop, c. 550 BCE Agamemnon - Tragedy, Aesch...
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Metamorphoses
(Epic Poem, Latin/Roman, 8 CE, 11,996 lines)Introduction "Metamorphoses" ("Transformations") is a narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet...
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Bucolics (Eclogues)
(Pastoral Poem, Latin/Roman, 37 BCE, 829 lines)Introduction "The Bucolics" (Lat: "Bucolica"), also known as "The Eclogues" (Lat: "Eclogae"), is a c...
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Carmen Saeculare
(Lyric Poem, Latin/Roman, 17 BCE, 76 lines)Introduction "Carmen Saeculare" (literally, "Secular Hymn", usually translated as "Song of the Ages"), s...