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For the Most Beautiful, [81] written by classicist and historian Emily Hauser in 2016, narrates the lives of Chryseis and Briseis in their own words. Natalie Haynes 's 2019 novel A Thousand Ships [ 82 ] narrates the consequences of the Fall of Troy through the eyes and words of the women involved.
Diogenes Laërtius lists, in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230 CE), works of Aristotle comprising 156 titles divided into approximately 400 books, which he reports as totaling 445,270 lines of writing; [10] however, many of these are lost or only survive in fragments, and some may have been incorrectly attributed.
Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal.
Other letters of the early Middle Kingdom have also been found to use epistolary formulas similar to the Book of Kemit. [151] The Heqanakht papyri, written by a gentleman farmer, date to the Eleventh dynasty and represent some of the lengthiest private letters known to have been written in ancient Egypt. [72]
Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand , an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia ...
Like many ancient historians, Herodotus preferred an element of show [d] to purely analytic history, aiming to give pleasure with "exciting events, great dramas, bizarre exotica." [ 43 ] As such, certain passages have been the subject of controversy [ 44 ] [ 45 ] and even some doubt, both in antiquity and today.
Ancient Greek literature especially influenced later Greek literature. For instance, the Greek novels influenced the later work Hero and Leander, written by Musaeus Grammaticus. [151] Ancient Roman writers were acutely aware of the ancient Greek literary legacy and many deliberately emulated the style and formula of Greek classics in their own ...
The History of Rome originally comprised 142 "books", 35 of which—Books 1–10 with the Preface and Books 21–45—still exist in reasonably complete form. [1] Damage to a manuscript of the 5th century resulted in large gaps in Books 41 and 43–45 (small lacunae exist elsewhere); that is, the material is not covered in any source of Livy's text.