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Plutus (Wealth)
(Comedy, Greek, c. 388 BCE, 1,207 lines)Introduction "Plutus" (Gr: "Ploutis") or "Wealth" is a late comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristoph...
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The Birds
(Comedy, Greek, 414 BCE, 1,765 lines)Introduction "The Birds" (Gr: "Ornithes") is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was fir...
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The Frogs
(Comedy, Greek, 405 BCE, 1,533 lines)Introduction "The Frogs" (Gr: "Batrachoi") is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It won fi...
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The Wasps
(Comedy, Greek, 422 BCE, 1,537 lines)Introduction "The Wasps" (Gr: "Sphekes") is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, first stage...
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Pliny the Younger
(Correspondent, Roman, 61 – c. 112 CE)Introduction Pliny the Younger was a successful lawyer, administrator and author of ancient Rome. Through his...
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Juvenal
(Satirist, Roman, c. 55 – c. 138 CE)Introduction Juvenal was a Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, the last and most powerful of all ...
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Apollonius of Rhodes
(Epic Poet, Greek, 3rd Century BCE)Introduction Apollonius of Rhodes (Apollonius Rhodius) was an innovative and influential Hellenistic Greek epic ...
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Aristophanes
(Comic Playwright, Greek, c. 446 – c. 386 BCE)Introduction Aristophanes was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Greece, somet...
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Menander
(Comic Playwright, Greek, c. 342 – c. 291 BCE)Introduction Menander (Menandros) was a Hellenistic Greek dramatist. He was the best-known representa...
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Ovid
(Epic, Elegiac and Didactic Poet, Roman, 43 BCE – c. 17 CE)Introduction Ovid was a prolific Roman poet, straddling the Golden and Silver Ages of La...
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Vergil (Virgil)
(Epic and Didactic Poet, Roman, 70 – c. 19 BCE)Introduction Vergil (or Virgil) was one of ancient Rome's greatest poets. His influence on the world...
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The Bacchae
(Tragedy, Greek, c. 410 BCE, 1,392 lines)Introduction "The Bacchae", also known as "The Bacchantes" (Gr: "Bakchai"), is a late tragedy by the ancie...
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