10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

Description of book

The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.



This carefully selected collection contains:

The Odyssey

The Works and Days

Theogony

The Complete Poems of Sappho

Medea

Antigone

Agamemnon

The Choephori

Eumenides

The Odes of Anacreon