Homer, Iliad
GREECE Oral tradition: reconstructed as far back as the second millennium BCE Written versions: reconstructed as far back at the 6th century BCE Homer, Iliad The ancient Greek epic poem known as the Iliad narrates an episode during the...
Homer, Odyssey
Greece Oral tradition: reconstructed as far back as the second millennium BCEWritten versions: reconstructed as far back as the 6th century BCE Homer, Odyssey §1. The ancient Greek epic known as the Homeric Odyssey is symmetrical with another epic, the Homeric Iliad,...
“Homer,” The Battle of Frogs and Mice
Greece 6th through 4th centuries BCE or later “Homer” The Battle of Frogs and Mice (Batrakhomuomakhia) The Batrakhomuomakhia (“The Battle of Frogs and Mice”, also Batrakhomakhia) is our sole extant full example of epic parody. It is dated to the 6th...
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica
Ancient Greece (Egypt) Date of composition: 3rd century BCE Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Apollonius of Rhodes composed the Argonautica in the mid-third century BC, probably working for the most part in Alexandria, which as the capital of Egypt under the rule of...Participants
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