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  • Introduction
  • Ancient Greece
    • Homer
      • The Iliad
      • The Odyssey
    • Hesiod
      • Works and Days
      • Theogony
    • Aesop
      • Aesop’s Fables
    • Sappho
      • Hymn to Aphrodite
    • Pindar
      • Olympic Ode 1
      • Pythian Ode 1
    • Aeschylus
      • The Persians
      • The Suppliants
      • Seven Against Thebes
      • Agamemnon
      • The Libation Bearers
      • The Eumenides
      • The Oresteia Trilogy
      • Prometheus Bound
    • Sophocles
      • Ajax
      • Antigone
      • The Trachiniae
      • Oedipus the King
      • Electra
      • Philoctetes
      • Oedipus at Colonus
    • Euripides
      • Alcestis
      • Medea
      • Heracleidae
      • Hippolytus
      • Andromache
      • Hecuba
      • The Suppliants
      • Electra
      • Heracles
      • The Trojan Women
      • Iphigenia in Tauris
      • Ion
      • Helen
      • The Phoenician Women
      • The Bacchae
      • Orestes
      • Iphigenia at Aulis
      • Cyclops
    • Aristophanes
      • The Acharnians
      • The Knights
      • The Clouds
      • The Wasps
      • Peace
      • The Birds
      • Lysistrata
      • Thesmophoriazusae
      • The Frogs
      • Ecclesiazusae
      • Plutus (Wealth)
    • Menander
      • Dyskolos (The Grouch)
    • Apollonius of Rhodes
      • Argonautica
  • Ancient Rome
    • Catullus
      • Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2)
      • Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5)
      • Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8)
      • Odi et amo (Catullus 85)
    • Vergil
      • The Bucolics (Eclogues)
      • The Georgics
      • The Aeneid
    • Horace
      • Carmen Saeculare (Song of the Ages)
      • Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)
      • Tu ne quaesieris (Odes 1-11)
      • Nunc est bibendum (Odes 1-37)
    • Ovid
      • Amores
      • Ars Amatoria
      • Heroides
      • Metamorphoses
    • Seneca the Younger
      • Medea
      • Phaedra
      • Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules)
      • Troades (The Trojan Women)
      • Agamemnon
      • Oedipus
      • Apocolocyntosis
      • Thyestes
      • Phoenissae (The Phoenician Women)
    • Lucan
      • Pharsalia (De Bello Civili)
    • Juvenal
      • Satire III
      • Satire VI
      • Satire X
    • Pliny the Younger
      • Epistulae VI.16 and VI.20
      • Epistulae X.96
  • Other Ancient Civilizations
    • Epic of Gilgamesh
    • The Bible
    • Beowulf
  • Timeline
  • Alphabetical List of Authors
  • Index of Individual Works
  • Index of Important Characters
  • Sources
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  • Introduction
  • Ancient Greece
    • Homer
      • The Iliad
      • The Odyssey
    • Hesiod
      • Works and Days
      • Theogony
    • Aesop
      • Aesop’s Fables
    • Sappho
      • Hymn to Aphrodite
    • Pindar
      • Olympic Ode 1
      • Pythian Ode 1
    • Aeschylus
      • The Persians
      • The Suppliants
      • Seven Against Thebes
      • Agamemnon
      • The Libation Bearers
      • The Eumenides
      • The Oresteia Trilogy
      • Prometheus Bound
    • Sophocles
      • Ajax
      • Antigone
      • The Trachiniae
      • Oedipus the King
      • Electra
      • Philoctetes
      • Oedipus at Colonus
    • Euripides
      • Alcestis
      • Medea
      • Heracleidae
      • Hippolytus
      • Andromache
      • Hecuba
      • The Suppliants
      • Electra
      • Heracles
      • The Trojan Women
      • Iphigenia in Tauris
      • Ion
      • Helen
      • The Phoenician Women
      • The Bacchae
      • Orestes
      • Iphigenia at Aulis
      • Cyclops
    • Aristophanes
      • The Acharnians
      • The Knights
      • The Clouds
      • The Wasps
      • Peace
      • The Birds
      • Lysistrata
      • Thesmophoriazusae
      • The Frogs
      • Ecclesiazusae
      • Plutus (Wealth)
    • Menander
      • Dyskolos (The Grouch)
    • Apollonius of Rhodes
      • Argonautica
  • Ancient Rome
    • Catullus
      • Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2)
      • Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5)
      • Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8)
      • Odi et amo (Catullus 85)
    • Vergil
      • The Bucolics (Eclogues)
      • The Georgics
      • The Aeneid
    • Horace
      • Carmen Saeculare (Song of the Ages)
      • Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)
      • Tu ne quaesieris (Odes 1-11)
      • Nunc est bibendum (Odes 1-37)
    • Ovid
      • Amores
      • Ars Amatoria
      • Heroides
      • Metamorphoses
    • Seneca the Younger
      • Medea
      • Phaedra
      • Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules)
      • Troades (The Trojan Women)
      • Agamemnon
      • Oedipus
      • Apocolocyntosis
      • Thyestes
      • Phoenissae (The Phoenician Women)
    • Lucan
      • Pharsalia (De Bello Civili)
    • Juvenal
      • Satire III
      • Satire VI
      • Satire X
    • Pliny the Younger
      • Epistulae VI.16 and VI.20
      • Epistulae X.96
  • Other Ancient Civilizations
    • Epic of Gilgamesh
    • The Bible
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