Myth & legend
Gods, heroes, and transformations: the myths retold by poets, historians, and philosophers.
Key terms: μῦθος (mythos), fabula, heros, metamorphosis, θεός (theos) — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Agamemnon
- Prometheus Bound
- Seven Against Thebes
- The Eumenides
- The Libation Bearers
- The Persians
- The Suppliants
- Argonautica
- The Golden Ass
- Library of History
- The Faerie Queene, Book I
- Alcestis
- Andromache
- Cyclops
- Electra
- Hecuba
- Helen
- Heracleidae
- Heracles
- Hippolytus
- Ion
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- Medea
- Orestes
- Rhesus
- The Bacchae
- The Phoenician Women
- The Suppliants
- The Trojan Women
- Histories (Books 1–2)
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- Theogony
- Works and Days
- Iliad
- Odyssey
- Ars Amatoria
- Metamorphoses
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Consolation to His Wife
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- Isis and Osiris
- On Controlling Anger
- On Fortune
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
- On the Education of Children
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Platonic Questions
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- Letter to Marcella
- Life of Plotinus
- Life of Pythagoras
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- On the Cave of the Nymphs
- Porphyry, Against the Christians — fragments via Eusebius
- Sententiae: Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures
- Ajax
- Antigone
- Electra
- Oedipus Rex
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Philoctetes
- Trachiniae
- Idylls
- Aeneid
- Eclogues
- Georgics
Aeschylus
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apuleius
Diodorus Siculus
Edmund Spenser
Euripides
Herodotus
Hesiod
Homer
Ovid
Plutarch
Porphyry
Sophocles
Theocritus
Virgil
Research guides
- New Book Reexamines Rediscovering Homer
- New Study Examines Illegitimate Gods in Lucian, Cicero And Plutarch: Connecting Scepticism And Religion
- New Study Examines The Afterlife of Greek Tragedy: Cultural Memory, Identity, and the Transformation of Tragic Myth Across Historical Periods
- New Study Examines Teaching Ancient Greek in Late Byzantium: Manuel Moschopoulos’ Schedography and His Scholia to Homer’s Iliad and Hesiod’s Works and Days?
- New Study Reexamines A dog’s justice and Euripides’ death
- New Study Examines Euripides, Suppliant Women 442
- New Study Examines Ovid in Exile and the Rhetoric of the Roman Frontier
- New Study Examines Aeschylus, Persians 602