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Classics
The root system of Western thought — in the original.
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The Homeric World
Converse with
Homer Simulacrum
Oral Epic · The Iliad · The Odyssey · Formula, Type-Scene, Ring Composition
fl. c. 750–700 BC
Converse with
Odysseus Simulacrum
The Man of Many Turns · Cunning · Concealment · Nostos
Homeric legend
Converse with
Penelope Simulacrum
The Loom as Strategy · Patience · Sovereignty Through Delay · The Odyssey
Homeric legend
Converse with
Hector Simulacrum
The Defender of Troy · Duty · The Doomed Cause · The Iliad
Homeric legend
Converse with
Achilles Simulacrum
Honour and Wrath · The Choice of Glory · Mortality · The Iliad
Homeric legend
Converse with
Heinrich Schliemann Simulacrum
Excavation of Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns · Text as Map · Mycenaean Archaeology
1822–1890
Converse with
Michael Ventris Simulacrum
The Decipherment of Linear B · Mycenaean Greek · Script versus Language
1922–1956
Converse with
Milman Parry Simulacrum
Oral-Formulaic Theory · The Composition of Homer · Fieldwork in Yugoslavia
1902–1935
Converse with
Moses Finley Simulacrum
The World of Odysseus · Social History · Myth as Evidence · Ancient Economy
1912–1986
Greek Oratory
Converse with
Antiphon Simulacrum
Attic Oratory · Eikos · Probability · The First Logographer
5th century BC
Converse with
Lysias Simulacrum
Attic Oratory · The Plain Style · Characterisation · Art That Conceals Art
5th–4th century BC
Converse with
Isocrates Simulacrum
Greek Rhetoric · Political Education · Periodic Style · Pan-Hellenism
5th–4th century BC
Converse with
Demosthenes Simulacrum
Greek Rhetoric · Political Urgency · The Philippics · Parrhēsia
4th century BC
Early Latin
Converse with
Livius Andronicus Simulacrum
Translation · Odusia · Latin Tragedy · Beginnings
3rd century BC
Converse with
Gnaeus Naevius Simulacrum
Epic · Comedy · Bellum Punicum · Roman National Poetry
3rd century BC
Converse with
Titus Maccius Plautus Simulacrum
Comedy · Farce · Verse · The Clever Slave
3rd–2nd century BC
Converse with
Publius Terentius Afer Simulacrum
Comedy · Humanism · Double Plots · Elegance
2nd century BC
Late Republic
Converse with
Marcus Terentius Varro Simulacrum
Roman Antiquities · Latin Language · Encyclopaedism
2nd–1st century BC
Converse with
Cornelius Nepos Simulacrum
Biography · De Viris Illustribus · Comparative Lives
1st century BC
Converse with
Marcus Tullius Cicero Simulacrum
Oratory · Philosophy · Humanitas · Latin Literature
2nd–1st century BC
Converse with
Gaius Julius Caesar Simulacrum
Commentarii · Military Prose · Political Narrative
1st century BC
Converse with
Aulus Hirtius Simulacrum
Book VIII · Continuator · Military History · The Soldier Who Finished Caesar's Story
1st century BC
Converse with
Gaius Sallustius Crispus Simulacrum
History · Moral Decline · Catiline · Jugurtha
1st century BC
Converse with
Gaius Valerius Catullus Simulacrum
Lyric Poetry · Love · Invective · Neoteric Verse
1st century BC
Augustan Age
Converse with
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Simulacrum
Architecture · De Architectura · Engineering · Proportion
1st century BC
Converse with
Publius Vergilius Maro Simulacrum
Epic · Pastoral · Didactic · The Aeneid
1st century BC
Converse with
Quintus Horatius Flaccus Simulacrum
Ode · Satire · Epistle · Ars Poetica
1st century BC
Converse with
Augustus Simulacrum
Res Gestae · Imperial Prose · Political Self-Presentation
1st century BC–1st century AD
Converse with
Titus Livius Simulacrum
Ab Urbe Condita · Roman History · Moral Exempla
1st century BC–1st century AD
Converse with
Albius Tibullus Simulacrum
Elegy · Pastoral Love · The Golden Age · Simplicity
1st century BC
Converse with
Publius Ovidius Naso Simulacrum
Metamorphoses · Amores · Exile · Wit
1st century BC–1st century AD
Converse with
Sulpicia Simulacrum
Elegy · Women's Voice · Desire · Latin Love Poetry
1st century BC
Converse with
The Unnamed Woman (Laudatio Turiae) Simulacrum
Elegy · Marriage · Devotion · Anonymous Inscription
1st century BC
Early Empire
Converse with
Pompeius Trogus Simulacrum
Universal History · Historiae Philippicae · The Non-Roman World
1st century BC–1st century AD
Converse with
Velleius Paterculus Simulacrum
History · Military Memoir · Tiberian Rome
1st century BC–1st century AD
Converse with
Claudius Simulacrum
Antiquarian History · Imperial Prose · Etruscology
1st century AD
Converse with
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Simulacrum
Stoic Philosophy · Epistulae · Tragedy · Moral Essays
1st century AD
Converse with
Marcus Manilius Simulacrum
Didactic Poetry · Astronomica · Fate · Stoic Cosmology
1st century AD
Converse with
Pomponius Mela Simulacrum
Geography · De Chorographia · The Known World
1st century AD
Converse with
Grattius Simulacrum
Didactic Poetry · Cynegetica · Hunting · Rural Life
1st century AD
Converse with
Quintus Curtius Rufus Simulacrum
History · Alexander the Great · Rhetorical Narrative
1st century AD
Converse with
Rutilius Lupus Simulacrum
Rhetoric · Figures of Speech · De Figuris Sententiarum
1st century AD
Converse with
Valerius Maximus Simulacrum
Exempla · Moral Rhetoric · Facta et Dicta Memorabilia
1st century AD
Converse with
Pliny the Elder Simulacrum
Natural History · Encyclopaedism · Curiosity · Vesuvius
1st century AD
Converse with
Aules Persius Flaccus Simulacrum
Satire · Stoic Ethics · Compression · Difficulty
1st century AD
Converse with
Caesius Bassus Simulacrum
Metre · Lyric Poetry · Grammar · The Persius Edition
1st century AD
Converse with
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Simulacrum
Epic · Bellum Civile · Anti-Epic · Neronian Poetry
1st century AD
Converse with
Calpurnius Siculus Simulacrum
Pastoral · Eclogues · Neronian Golden Age
1st century AD
Converse with
Corpus Priapeorum (Anonymous) Simulacrum
Obscene Verse · Priapus · Garden Poetry · Roman Humour
1st century AD
Converse with
Laus Pisonis (Anonymous) Simulacrum
Panegyric · Patron Poetry · Neronian Rome
1st century AD
Converse with
Ilias Latina (Baebius Italicus?) Simulacrum
Epic Epitome · Homer in Latin · Compression
1st century AD
Flavian & Later Imperial
Converse with
Silius Italicus Simulacrum
Epic · Punica · The Second Punic War · Flavian Poetry
1st century AD
Converse with
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Simulacrum
Rhetoric · Education · Institutio Oratoria · The Complete Orator
1st century AD
Converse with
Marcus Valerius Martialis Simulacrum
Epigram · Satire · Roman Daily Life · Wit
1st century AD
Converse with
Publius Papinius Statius Simulacrum
Epic · Thebaid · Silvae · Occasional Poetry
1st century AD
Converse with
Publius Cornelius Tacitus Simulacrum
Annales · Historiae · Germania · Imperial Corruption
1st–2nd century AD
Converse with
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus Simulacrum
Epistulae · Provincial Government · Vesuvius · Literary Correspondence
1st–2nd century AD
Converse with
Hyginus Simulacrum
Fabulae · Astronomica · Mythological Compendium · The Damaged Database
2nd century AD
Converse with
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Simulacrum
Imperial Biography · De Vita Caesarum · Gossip as Method
1st–2nd century AD
Converse with
Lucius Annaeus Florus Simulacrum
Epitome · Roman History in Miniature · Rhetorical History
2nd century AD
Converse with
Lucius Apuleius Simulacrum
Metamorphoses · The Golden Ass · Isis · African Latin
2nd century AD
Converse with
Aulus Gellius Simulacrum
Noctes Atticae · Antiquarianism · Miscellany · Grammar
2nd century AD
Converse with
Gaius Simulacrum
Roman Law · Institutes · Persons, Things, Actions
2nd century AD
Converse with
Sextus Pomponius Simulacrum
Roman Legal History · Enchiridion · Jurists · The Only Ancient History of Roman Law
2nd century AD
Converse with
Sextus (Pseudo-Pythagorean) Simulacrum
Sententiae · Moral Maxims · Pythagorean Ethics · Asceticism
2nd century AD
Reference & Tools
Converse with
Latin Syntax Simulacrum
Latin Word Order · Sentence Structure · Grammar
Classical Latin
Converse with
Rhetorica Ciceroniana Simulacrum
Oratory · Rhetoric · Persuasion · Latin Style
Classical Latin
Converse with
The Roman Mind Simulacrum
Roman Thought · Law · Governance · Civic Virtue
Classical Rome
Converse with
Jacob Bernays Simulacrum
Classical Philology · Aristotle’s Catharsis · Theophrastus · Scaliger · Heraclitus
19th century