Sources
I have made use of various freely available sources on the Internet, including, but not limited to, the following:
About.com (Ancient/Classical History)
MSN Encarta (website no longer functioning)
Arthurian and Grail Sources
There are hundreds of works on the Arthurian legends in many different languages such as Welsh, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Scandinavian (and maybe in some more languages that I have not come across). The main sources in T...
September 27th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
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, Aeschylus, 458 BCE Agamemnon - Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, c. 55 CE Ajax - Tragedy, Sophocles, c. 444 BC...
October 24th, 2024
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Timeless Myths
About Us
We Have A Mission If you are here, chances are you are like us: in search of wisdom that is tried and true, battle tested and guaranteed to provide insight and enlightenment. However, you may not know just where to begin your quest in finding what...
January 1st, 2025
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Ancient Literature
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 Apollonius of Rhodes - Epic poet, 3rd century BCE Aristophanes - Comic playwright, 5th–4th century BCE Ca...
October 24th, 2024
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Frankish Sources
Due to the difference between the Arthurian and Frankish sources, I have decided that the Songs of Deeds (Frankish legend) section should have its own bibliography page. I have not confined the Songs of Deeds to just legends about Charlemagne. I a...
September 27th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Bibliography
September 27th, 2000
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Ajax
(Tragedy, Greek, c. 444 BCE, 1,421 lines)Introduction “Ajax” (Gr: “Aias”) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. Although the exact date of its first performance is unknown, most scholars date it to relatively early in Sophocles' ...
January 1st, 2025
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Ancient Literature
Fables
(Fables, Greek, c. 550 BCE)Introduction "Aesop's Fables" (Lat: "Aesopica") refers to a collection of well-known fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller who lived in ancient Greece in the 6th Century BCE. It is also sometimes used as a b...
January 1st, 2025
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Ancient Literature
Satire X
(Satire, Latin/Roman, c. 120 CE, 366 lines)Introduction "Satire X" ("Satura X") is a verse satire by the Roman satirical poet Juvenal, written around 120 CE. The poem, sometimes known by the title "The Vanity of Human Wishes", is couched in brilli...
October 25th, 2024
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Timeless Myths
Index of Important Characters
Character Appearances Achilles Homer: Iliad; Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis; Ovid: Heroides, Metamorphoses Aegeus Euripides: Medea; Ovid: Metamorphoses Aegisthus Homer: The Odyssey; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Oresteia Trilogy, The Libation Bearers, Ores...
October 24th, 2024
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