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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

  • Apollonius of Rhodes - Epic poet, 3rd century BCE

  • Aristophanes - Comic playwright, 5th–4th century BCE

  • Catullus - Lyric and elegiac poet, 1st century BCE

  • Euripides - Tragic playwright, 5th century BCE

  • Hesiod - Didactic poet, 8th century BCE

  • Homer - Epic poet, 8th century BCE

  • Horace - Lyric poet and satirist, 1st century BCE

  • Juvenal - Satirist, 1st–2nd century CE

  • Lucan - Epic poet, 1st century CE

  • Menander - Comic playwright, 4th–3rd century BCE

  • Ovid - Didactic, elegiac and epic poet, 1st century BCE–1st century CE

  • Pindar - Lyric poet, 6th–5th century BCE

  • Pliny the Younger - Correspondent, 1st–2nd century CE

  • Sappho - Lyric poet, 7th–6th century BCE

  • Seneca the Younger - Tragic playwright and satirist, 1st century CE

  • Sophocles - Tragic playwright, 5th century BCE

  • Vergil (Virgil) - Epic and didactic poet, 1st century BCE

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Index of Individual Works

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 • Timeless Myths
Index of Important Characters

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...

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Characters in the Odyssey: A Varied List of Significant Ones

Characters in the Odyssey: A Varied List of Significant Ones

Characters in the Odyssey are numerous, but the most significant ones include Odysseus, the Greek hero, around whom the story revolves; Penelope, his loyal wife; Telemachus, their son; the adversaries that were both suitors and monsters; however, ...

February 16th, 2024 • Ancient Literature
Timeline of Classical Literature

Timeline of Classical Literature

January 1st, 2025 • Ancient Literature
Frankish Sources

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 • Jimmy Joe
Bibliography

Bibliography

Texts Other Texts ReferencesTexts The following books are translations that I have read. If you are interested in reading this literature, then I would highly recommend that you read these books. These books are the main sources of information for...

September 27th, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Bibliography

Bibliography

Below are books and websites of my bibliography and the suggested readings for people. Most of these are lists of (translated) literature, such as scriptures of both canonical and non-canonical texts. I have given some websites as well as a list o...

April 2nd, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Bibliography

Bibliography

Texts Other Texts ReferencesTexts The following books are translations that I have read. If you are interested in reading this literature, then I would highly recommend that you read these books. These books are the main sources of information for...

September 27th, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Invocation of the Muse Odyssey: The Author's Prayer

Invocation of the Muse Odyssey: The Author's Prayer

Invocation of the muse Odyssey, in Greek mythology, refers to the act of the author, Homer, requesting the muse to give him inspiration and blessing as he begins to write his work of literature, The Odyssey. Read on to discover more details about ...

February 16th, 2024 • Ancient Literature
Aesop

Aesop

(Fabulist, Greek, c. 620 – c. 560 BCE)Introduction Aesop was by tradition a Greek slave, and he is known today exclusively for the genre of fables ascribed to him. "Aesop's Fables" (most of which have anthropomorphic animals as the main characters...

January 1st, 2025 • Ancient Literature
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