{"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\n