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Pausanias
Pausanias (flourished ca. A.D. 150 ) The author of one of the most famous and informative guidebooks of antiquity. Possibly hailing from Smyrna in Greek Ionia,Pausanias traveled widely, gathering information for his Description of Greece (or Guide to Greece). The … Continue reading
Herodes Atticus
Herodes Atticus, a great orator and writer of the greek ancient times, was born in Marathon and lived between 101 – 177 AD. He was a part of the Second Sophistic , a trend of thought of the second century … Continue reading
Menander
Menander(ca. 342 B.C.–ca. 292 B.C.) A Greek comic playwright who dominated the theatrical period known as the New Comedy (ca. 320s–ca. 260 B.C.). An Athenian by birth, Menander is credited with writing more than a hundred plays. The only one … Continue reading
Aristophanes
Aristophanes(ca. 445 B.C.–ca. 385 B.C.) The greatest Greek comic playwright of the fifth century B.C. Very little is known about Aristophanes’ personal life, other than that he was born in Athens. A remark in one of his plays hints that he … Continue reading
Euripides
Euripides (ca. 485 B.C.–406 B.C.) One of the leading Athenian playwrights of the fifth-century B.C. and today seen as one of the greatest writers of tragedy in theatrical history. Euripides was not as popular in his own time as his … Continue reading
Sophocles
Sophocles (ca. 496 B.C.–406 B.C.) A noted Athenian dramatist who wrote Oedipus the King, widely viewed as one of the greatest tragedies ever written. He was born in the small Athenian village of Colonus. Ancient writers claim that Sophocles wrote … Continue reading
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus(ca. 525 B.C.–456 B.C.) An Athenian playwriter who has come to be seen as the world’s first great dramatist.Born at Eleusis (site of the goddess Demeter’s temple and mystery cult), Aeschylus fought in the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., … Continue reading
Pindar
Pindar(ca. 518 B.C.–ca. 438 B.C.) The most famous and accomplished of Greece’s choral poets, best known for his victory odes (epinikia) written to honor the victors of athletic events. Not much is known about Pindar’s life. It seems that he … Continue reading
Sappho
Sappho flourished in the late seventh century B.C. The most famous of the few female poets of ancient Greece. Sappho, who hailed from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, belonged to a local cult of Aphrodite, goddess of love. Sappho’s … Continue reading
Homer
The most respected and revered of the ancient Greek poets, and according to tradition, the author of the greatest epic poems ever written—the Iliad and the Odyssey.The Iliad describes a series of incidents in the tenth and final year of … Continue reading
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