Major Greek and Latin Authors

Major Greek and Latin Authors

Homer, 8th c BCEpic Poet • Iliad – Rage • Odyssey – Man • Chios

Aeschylus, 5th c BC Tragedy • Oresteia – Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Euminides

Sophokles, 5th c BC, Tragedy • Theban Cycle – Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, Antigone

Euripides, 5th c BC, Tragedy • Nascent Satire, Psychology of the Individual • Elektra, Medea, Bacchae

Aristophanes, 5th c Comedy • The Frogs • The Clouds • The Wasps • Lysistrata

Herodotus,5th c BC • Histories

Thucydides, 5th c BC • History of the Peloponnesian War

Socrates, 5th c BC (Wrote nothing)

Plato, 4th c BC – The Dialogues • Symposium • Apology • Republic

Aristotle, 4th c BC • Logic • Ethics • Physics • Metaphysics • Constitution of the Athenians • Bekker and a Mummy

Plutarch, mid 1st – early 2nd c ADBiographer • Parallel Lives • Sir Thomas North 1579 English translation

Plautus, 3rd c BC, Comedy • Miles Gloriosus • Pseudolus

Terence, 2nd c BC, Comedy • Girl from Andros

Lucretius, 1st c BC, Philosophy • De RerumNatura • Epicurean Explanation of the Cosmos • Suggests following Nature vs Religion • Conquers fear of Death • Hexameter

Caesar, 1st c BC, History • De Bello Gallico

Cicero, 1st c BC • Pro Milone • in Catilinam • De Oratore • Philippics

Maecenas Augustan Patron

Livy, 1st c • AbUrbe Condita

Vergil, 1st c, Epic • Aeneid • Georgics • Bucolics

Catullus, 1st c BC, Lyric • Lesbia Poems ‘Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atqueamemus,’

Horace, 1st c, Lyric • Odes III.30Exegi Monumentum IV.7 DiffugereNives

Ovid, 1st c, Lyric and Epic • Metamorphoses • Fasti • ArsAmatoria

Seneca, 1st c, Stoic • Trojan Women • De Ira • De Otio

Martial, 1st c. Satirist • EpigrammatonLibri

Tacitus, 1st c. History • Annales

Suetonius, 1st c. historian • De vita caesarum • De virisillustribus Trajan

Marcus Aurelius, 2nd c. philosophy • Meditations (in Greek)

Apuleius, 2nd c. novelist • Metamorphoses or… The Golden Ass

Major Greek and Latin Authors

Major Greek and Latin Authors

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Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin Roots

Latin and Greek Roots

Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin roots

Latin and Greek Roots

Latin and Greek Roots

Latin and Greek Roots

Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin Roots

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