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Phaedra, sometimes known as Hippolytus is a play by Seneca the Younger, telling the story of Phaedra and her taboo love for her stepson Hippolytus. It is an adaptation of Hippolytus by Euripides; in Seneca's version, Phaedra is more sensual and shameless, deceiving her nurse in order to gain her as an accomplice. According to Pierre Grimal, it seems that this work is the result of the "contamination" of several sources, including Sophocles (a lost tragedy), Lycophron and Ovid. |
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The Iliad is the first ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly
dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work
of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it the first work of European literature.
The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a
long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors.The poem concerns events during the tenth and
final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks.
The Odyssey is his second major poem. The poem was probably written near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere along the Greek-controlled western Turkey seaside, Ionia. The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. |
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The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Written in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works of mythology, being the Classical work best known to medieval writers and thus having a great deal of influence on medieval poetry. |
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Octavia, a play in Latin traditionally attributed to Seneca the Younger, focuses on three days in AD 62, during which Nero divorced and exiled one wife (Claudia Octavia) and married another (Poppaea Sabina). This play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of Seneca's advice to rein in his passions. |
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Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, classical scholars often describe it as a "Roman novel", without necessarily implying continuity with the modern literary form. |
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Some of the 17 epigrams attributed to Seneca the Younger. |
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The Bucolics (also called the Eclogues) is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
Imitating the Greek Bucolica ("on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus,
Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change
at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. The Georgics, published in 29 BCE, is his second major work. Its supposed subject is rural life and farming and the work is generally categorized as a "didactic poem". The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. |
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