Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia. https://www.worldhistory.org/iliad/ #History #Achilles #Ajax[Play] #GreekLiterature

Ganymede (pronounced GAH-nuh-meed) is a youth in Greek mythology who is abducted by Zeus because of his great beauty and brought to Mount Olympus to serve as cupbearer. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ganymede/ #History #Ganymede #GreekCulture #GreekLiterature

Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia. https://www.worldhistory.org/iliad/ #History #Achilles #Ajax[Play] #GreekLiterature

Antigone was the third play in the Oedipus trilogy written by the great Greek playwright Sophocles (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Antigone/ #History #Antigone #GreekLiterature #GreekTragedy

Callimachus of Cyrene (l. c. 310-c. 240 BCE) was a poet and scholar associated with the Library of Alexandria and best known for his Pinakes ("Tablets"), a bibliographic catalog of Greek literature, his poetry, and his literary aesthetic which rejected the epic in favor of shorter works and influenced the later development of Roman literature. #History #GreekLiterature #Cyrene #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Callimachus_of_Cyrene/

Ganymede (pronounced GAH-nuh-meed) is a youth in Greek mythology who is abducted by Zeus because of his great beauty and brought to Mount Olympus to serve as cupbearer. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ganymede/ #History #Ganymede #GreekCulture #GreekLiterature

Pindar (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Pindar/ #History #GreekLiterature #OlympicGames #Pindar

Pindar (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Pindar/ #History #GreekLiterature #OlympicGames #Pindar

Sappho of Lesbos (l. https://www.worldhistory.org/Sappho_of_Lesbos/ #History #GreekLiterature #Homosexuality #Lesbos

The Clouds is a comedy written c. 423 BCE by the Greek playwright Aristophanes (c. 448 BCE – c. 385 BCE). A failure at the Dionysia competition, finishing third out of three, it was revised later in 418 BCE but never produced in the author's lifetime.https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Clouds/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History

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Aristophanes (c. 460 - c. 380 BCE) was the most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works are the only examples of that style. #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History https://www.worldhistory.org/Aristophanes/utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia

Aristophanes (c. 460 - c. 380 BCE) was the most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works are the only examples of that style.https://www.worldhistory.org/Aristophanes/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History

Homer's Odyssey is an epic poem written in the 8th century BCE which describes the long voyage home of the Greek hero Odysseus. The mythical king sails back to Ithaca with his men after the Trojan War but is beset by all kinds of delays and misadventures where he battles monsters and storms but also resists (eventually) the advances of beautiful women in the knowledge that, all the while, his f...https://www.worldhistory.org/Odyssey/ #CyclopsCreature #CyclopsPlay #GreekLiterature

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Professor Emily Wilson’s Twitter feed (@EmilyRCWilson) provides her readers with insights into the art of translation. In recent posts, she has analyzed the challenges a translator faces, with examples from the #Odyssey and #Oedipus Tyrannos (forthcoming from Norton). Wilson also uses #twitter to compare short passages from different #English #translations of the Odyssey.
#Homer #xl8 #Epic #theodyssey #poetry #poesia #greekliterature #lit

Xenophon of Athens (l. 430 to c. 354 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato and a fellow student of Socrates. He is best known for his Anabasis (The March Up Country) detailing the retreat of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries after the defeat of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger (d. 401 BCE) as well as for his works on Socrates.
https://www.worldhistory.org/xenophon/ #ArtaxerxesII #GreekLiterature #History

So probably time for the introduction post...

I research Greek literature related things. I've spent a lot of time writing about monsters (mostly in this book: https://www.routledge.com/Monsters-in-Greek-Literature-Aberrant-Bodies-in-Ancient-Greek-Cosmogony/Mitchell/p/book/9780367556464).

I'm now mainly interested in time and its personification.

I'm an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, but essentially an independent scholar.

#GreekLiterature #Monsters #IndependentScholar

Aristophanes wrote in the 5th century BCE about coin hoards in Athens. He joked about the common saying, "No one knows but the birds where I hid my money," which led buffoons in his play to follow birds around with a shovel, hoping to excavate a treasure.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1873/treasure-hoards-in-ancient-literature/ #GreekLiterature #RomanLaw #RomanLiterature