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Ancient Greek literature. Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic ...
Print of Clio, made in the 16th–17th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library. [2]The word Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men-(the basic meaning of which is 'put in mind' in verb formations with transitive function and 'have in mind' in those with intransitive function), [3] or from root *men ...
The study of the lives of women in classical Athens has been a significant part of classical scholarship since the 1970s. The knowledge of Athenian women's lives comes from a variety of ancient sources. Much of it is literary evidence, primarily from tragedy, comedy, and oratory; supplemented with archaeological sources such as epigraphy and ...
Medusa is a playable character in Smite, turning enemy gods into stone. Medusa is a unit in Heroes of Might and Magic series. A Gorgon is used as a boss fight in the 2016 game Enter the Gungeon, in the game's second level. The boss is named the Gorgun to fit with the game's style of everything being gun related.
The theme of forbidding dead bodies from burial occurs many times throughout ancient Greek literature. Examples include the body of Hector as portrayed in the Iliad, the body of Ajax as portrayed in Sophocles' Ajax, and the children of Niobe. For what happens to the body of Polynices, see Sophocles' Antigone.
Eileithyia or Ilithyia ( / ɪlɪˈθaɪ.ə /; [ 1] Greek: Εἰλείθυια; Ἐλεύθυια ( Eleuthyia) in Crete, also Ἐλευθία ( Eleuthia) or Ἐλυσία ( Elysia) in Laconia and Messene, and Ἐλευθώ ( Eleuthō) in literature) [ 2] was the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery, [ 3] and the daughter of Zeus and Hera ...
Euripides[ a] ( c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have ...
The Catalogue of Women ( Ancient Greek: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος, romanized : Gunaikôn Katálogos )—also known as the Ehoiai ( Ancient Greek: Ἠοῖαι, romanized : Ēoîai, Ancient: [ɛː.ôi̯.ai̯]) [ a] —is a fragmentary Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The "women" of the title were in fact ...