CZ:Literature Workgroup/Ancient literature
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- Ancient Greek literature: Add brief definition or description
- Roman literature: Add brief definition or description
- Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. [e]
- Gilgamesh: From Mesopotamian mythology, a hero whose adventures are recounted in the fragmentary Epic of Gilgamesh. There are numerous versions of this epic story and no consensus that one particular version is the standard one. Gilgamesh has some characteristics in common with Heracles and Achilles, particularly in attachment to a friend who dies. [e]
Herodotus: (c. 484 BC - c. 430 BC) Greek historian, author of the Histories (historiai, 'inquiries'), called 'The Father of History,' as he was among the first to approach the reporting of history in a logical and skeptical way. [e]
Aeschylus: (525–456 BCE) Earliest great Greek tragic dramatist; only 7 plays survive, including the trilogy the Oresteia (about the House of Atreus). [e]- Sophocles: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King, and Antigone. [e]
- Euripides: Greek tragic dramatist (c.480–c.406 BC), one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece. Works include Medea, The Bacchae, Electra, and The Trojan Women. [e]
- Plato: (circa 427-347 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher, whose dialogues, supposedly recording conversations with Socrates, contain many of the debates central to Western philosophy. [e]
- Menander: Add brief definition or description
- Callimachus: Add brief definition or description
- Theocritus: Add brief definition or description
- Lucretius: Add brief definition or description
- Cicero: Add brief definition or description
- [[[Virgil]]: [{{fullurl:[Virgil/Definition|action=edit&preload=Template%3ADef_preload}} Add brief definition or description]
- Propertius: Add brief definition or description
- Ovid: (43BC-AD17) (Publius Ovidius Naso), Roman poet, author of Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria. [e]
- Tibullus: Add brief definition or description
- Lucan: Add brief definition or description
Lucian: Greek writer of satires in the second century AD. [e]- Apuleius: Add brief definition or description
