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In Poetics Aristotle (384-322 BCE) treats Greek tragedy and epic. The subject of On the Sublime, attributed to an (unidentifiable) Longinus and probab

This volume of Thucydides' history includes an account of Pericles' Funeral Speech and the plague in Athens between 431 and 429 BC. Professor Rusten c

Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed, and adapted of Greek tragedies

Aristophanes of Athens (c 446-386 BC) is considered one of the world's greatest comic dramatists. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of which have survived complet

One of antuiquity's foremost poets, Euripides (c 485-406 BC) has been prized for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists and intellectual probing o

Bacchylides wrote masterful choral poetry of many types. Other fifth-century BCE lyricists included Myrtis, Telesilla of Argos, Timocreon of Rhodes, C

The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. They included Stesichorus, Ibycus, and Simonid

Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete,

Euripides' Alcestis--perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama--is an ideal text for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary

Dithyrambic poets of the new school were active from the mid-fifth to mid-fourth century BCE. Anonymous poems include drinking songs, children's ditti