{"id":13082,"date":"2022-01-11T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/staging\/?page_id=13082"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:17:27","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancient-literature.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Literature – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are already many websites devoted to both classic literature and classical literature. This is just another such, although my intention in this website is to emphasize ease of use over authoritativeness<\/strong>, and perspective over comprehensiveness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is intended to be a basic level guide to some of the best known and loved works of classical prose<\/strong>, poetry and drama from ancient Greece, Rome and other ancient civilizations, and is intended to elicit basic level responses like \u201cOh, that was HIM, was it?\u201d and \u201cI thought all Greek plays were tragedies\u201d and \u201cSo, you mean she was a lesbian?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am no literary authority myself, merely an interested lay-person who has found himself flummoxed and embarrassed in the past by questions like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • When was Homer writing? Before or after people like Sophocles and Euripides?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Was \u201cThe Aeneid\u201d<\/em> written in Latin or Greek?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cThe Trojan Women\u201d<\/em> – now, was that Aeschylus? Euripides? Aristophanes maybe?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • I\u2019ve heard of \u201cThe Oresteia\u201d<\/em>, I\u2019ve even SEEN it, but I\u2019ve no idea who actually wrote it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • I know Oedipus married his mother, but what was her name? And where does Antigone come into it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Orestes Pursued by the Furies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n