Directory 12 of 1,237 texts
Texts — Greek and Roman
The texts filed under Greek and Roman.
Written once,
read ever since.
Texts and their dates
Texts in Greek and Roman
Aegean, Italy and the Roman provinces, roughly 1600 BCE to 400 CE.
12 texts
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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.
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Iliad Epic poem attributed to Homer -
Odyssey Epic poem attributed to Homer -
Metamorphoses Narrative poem by Ovid -
Theogony Poem by Hesiod, describing the origins and genealogies of the greek gods -
Bibliotheca Work by Pseudo-Apollodorus, a compendium of Greek myths -
Sibylline Books Collection of prophecies used in Rome - Epic Cycle History of the Trojan War told in poems
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Celeus Mythical king at Eleusis - Hymn to Demeter I Homeric hymn, ancient verse honoring Demeter
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Story Hercules at the crossroads Apologue attributed to Prodicus, preserved in Xenophon’s Memorabilia 2.1.21–34 -
Artemis of Ephesus Greco-Roman deity venerated in Ephesus -
Lindos Chronicle Greek inscription recording offerings to Lindian Athena
The whole collection
Greek and Roman
The Olympians and their Roman equivalents, the mystery cults, and the poets whose accounts disagree.