Myths and Mythology

The Major Texts and Writers=

Homer 8th C BC. Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey although the stories had a long oral tradition. See also Homer's Odyssey

Hesiod 7th C BC wrote the Theogany dealing with the origins of the gods. Also wrote Works and Days and Catalogue of a Woman

Homeric Hyms . 6th C BC Epic-style poems honoring Greek deities

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Heredotos Mid-5th C BC. Wrote Father of History

Aiskylos 4th C BC Athenian tragic dramatist

Sophokles 4th C BC Athenian tragic dramatist

Euripides 4th C BC Athenian tragic dramatist

Aristophanes 4th C BC Comic playwright

Plato 4th C BC Athenian philosopher who used myths to illustrate ideas

Kallimakhos 3rd C BC Learned scholar poet

Apollonios Rhondios 3rd Wrote definitive version of Jason and the Argonauts

Theokritos 3rd C Hellenistic poet

Virgil 1st C BC Roman Poet who wrote Aeneid

Ovid 1st C AD Roman poet who wrote Metamorphosis. Most influential author about myth on Western literature

Plutarch 1st C AD Wrote Parallel Lives and Greek biographer

Pausanias 2nd C AD Greek travel writer