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Theogony
Also attributed to Hesiod but falsely:
- Megala Erga
- Precepts of Chiron
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Wrote an epic poem on Corinthian history, the 'Corinthiaca'.
Wrote the cyclic 'Battle of the Titans'
Eumelus is the earliest eyewitness of the localization of Aia, the fabulous eastern kingdom of the sun, in Colchis beside the River Phasis, which traditionally marked the eastern boundary of the known world. This is thought to be rather propagandistic for Corinth; he wanted to give the city a mythological founder figure.
Served as an important model for Apollonius. Most frr. of Eumelus are preserved in Apollonius' scholia.
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-from Ephesus
-'how long will you...'
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Wrote the Heraclea, a favorite among Alexandrian scholars. Clement of Alexandria considers it a rip-off of Pisinus of Lindus (otherwise unknown).
Peisander fixed Heracles' labors to twelve and introduced the 'Heraclean' costume. Before 600 BCE, Heracles was depicted s a normal hoplite, with shield, spear, and sword.
Theocritus celebrates him as the first poet to tell the story of Heracles and his labors.
The poem covered Heracles' whole career.
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Choral Lyric:
- Common themes: mythical narrations, gnomic reflections, limits of mortality, nature of human condition, art of song.
- Consists of: hymenaion, dancing song, dirge, paean, patheneion, prosodion, hymn, dithyramb, enkomion, skolion.
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Poem on the fortunes of the house of Oedipus and the quarrel of Polynices and Eteocles.
The Suda says his real name was Teisias and that he was calling Stesichorus because he was the first to establish a chorus of song to the lyre. The name suggests strong connections with choral poetry, while the texts point to poems which do not look as though they were choral.
2 Palinodes for Helen (1 says that she was in Sparta; one that she was protected by Proteus in Egypt)
Interest in Heracles, as evidenced by:
Longinus calls him 'most Homeric'
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Pherecydes's great treatises (a history of his native isle, Leros; an essay, On Iphigeneia; and On the Festivals of Dionysus) are all lost. However, numerous fragments of his ten-book genealogies of the gods and heroes, which was written in the Ionian dialect to glorify the ancestors in the heroic age of his 5th-century patrons, have been preserved. Pherecydes modified the legends, not in order to rationalize them, but rather to adjust them to popular beliefs. Therefore, Pherecydes cannot be classed with the earlier mythographer Hecataeus of Miletus, whose Genealogiai ("Genealogies") were more skeptical and critical.
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Related to Herodotus.
Wrote an epic, the 'Heracleia' and an elegy, the 'Ionica'.
Heraclea was 9,000 lines long. At 14 Books, it was the longest pre-Alexandrian epic after the Iliad, Odyssey, and Antimachus' Thebaid.
Alexandrians included him in the canon of 5 epic poets.
The Ionica was an elegaic poem of 7,000 lines on the legendary colonization of Ionia.
468 BCE - 406 BCE
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Oedipus at Colonus (406)
Won first place in two thirds of his competitions and never placed below third.
Received heroic honors after death under the cult name 'Dexion'.
Changed chorus members from 12 to 15.
Began (or popularized) practice of producing trilogies on different subjects.
Introduced skenographia.
Wrote a book 'On the Chorus'
Sophocles said that Aeschylus did the right thing without knowing what he was doing (Athenaeus 1.22a-b).
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Wrote the epic 'Persica'.
Self-consciously sought a new path for epic.
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His work includes the first mention of the legendary founding of Rome by the Trojans; he writes that the city was founded by Aeneas when accompanying Odysseus on travels through Latium.
Some thirty works are attributed to him—chronological, historical and episodical. Mention may be made of:
The Priestesses of Hera at Argon: a chronological compilation, arranged according to the order of succession of these functionaries
The Carneonikae: a list of the victors in the Carnean games (the chief Spartan musical festival), including notices of literary events
An Atthis, giving the history of Attica from 683 to the end of the Peloponnesian War (404), which is referred to by Thucydides (1.97), who says that he treated the events of the years 480-431 briefly and superficially, and with little regard to chronological sequence
Phoronis: chiefly genealogical, with short notices of events from the times of Phoroneus, primordial king in Peloponnesus.
Troica and Persica: histories of Troy and Persia.
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Wrote an Argonautica
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-Appointed tutor to the heir to the throne of Ptolemaic Egypt.
- Philitas was the first major Greek writer who was both a scholar and a poet.
- Wrote 'Disorderly Words' (Ἄτακτοι γλῶσσαι), which described the meanings of rare literary words.
- Wrote 'Hermeneia', another scholarly work, probably containing Philitas' versions and critical interpretations of Homer and other authors.
- Wrote 'Demeter', in elegiac couplets
- Wrote the epyllion, 'Hermes'. Narrated Odysseus' secret affair with Polymele on Aeolus' island.
- Wrote 'Paignia'
- Almost everything he wrote seems to have been lost after the 2nd century BCE
After all, in a comic fragment of Strato (Kassel-Austin PCG VII, frag. 1), a contemporary of Philitas, a master of the house sputters in exasperation as he describes being driven to distraction because the cook he hired for a party possessed the peculiar and hilarious tic of speaking almost exclusively in Homerisms: “one would have had to use the books of Philitas and look up every word to check its mean- ing” (eßdei / ta; touÅ FilitaÅ lambavnonta bublÇa / skope∂n e§kaston tÇ duvnatai tΩn rJhmavtwn).
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-Pupil of Philetas of Cos.
- First Librarian of the Library of Alexandria.
- First critical editor (διορθωτής) of Homer.
- His colleagues were Alexander of Aetolia and Lycophron of Chalcis.
- It is probable that he was responsible for the division of the Homeric poems into twenty-four books each
- Possibly the author of Tabula Iliaca, the calculation of the number of days in the Iliad.
- Wrote a Homeric γλῶσσαι, glosses.
- Introduced an organization system on the materials in the Library of Alexandria whereby texts were assigned to different rooms based on their subject matter. Within their subjects, Zenodotus organized the works alphabetically by the first letter of the name of their author.
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-Tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra is attributed (perhaps falsely).
- The 'Alexandra' "may be the most illegible piece of classical literature, one which nobody can read without a proper commentary and which even then makes very difficult reading."
- Wrote On Comedy.
- Wrote anagrams.
- The Suda gives the titles of twenty tragedies, of which a very few fragments have been preserved: Aeolus, Allies (Symmakhoi), Andromeda, Chrysippus, Daughters of Aeolus, Daughters of Pelops, Elephenor, Herakles, Hippolytus, Kassandreis, Laius, Marathonians, Menedemus, Nauplius, Oedipus (two versions), Orphan (Orphanos), Pentheus, Suppliants (Hiketai), Telegonus, and the Wanderer (Aletes).
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Dates uncertain (3rd c.)
- Cynic and satirist.
- His works, which are all lost, were an important influence on Varro and Lucian. The Menippean satire genre is named after him.
- Strabo and Stephanus call him the "earnest-jester" (σπουδογελοίος).
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Wrote a Thebaid.
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-Scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.
-Succeeded Eratosthenes as Head Librarian.
-The first to deny that the Precepts of Chiron was the work of Hesiod.
-Credited with the invention of the accent system.
-Credited with dividing literature into 'canons'.
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-According to the Suda, Aristarchus wrote 800 treatises (ὑπομνήματα) on various topics; these are all lost but for fragments preserved in the various scholia.
-Wrote a commentary on Herodotus.
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-Hellenistic grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace
- Wrote the first extant Greek grammar (τέχνη γραμματική)
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Dionysian imitatio is the influential literary method of imitation as formulated by Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first century BCE, which conceived it as the rhetorical practice of emulating, adaptating, reworking and enriching a source text by an earlier author.[1][2] It marked the beginning of the doctrine of imitation, which dominated the Western history of art up until 18th century, when the notion of romantic originality was introduced.
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Amores (3 books, claimed to have been 5)
Heroides (poems 1-15)
Medea
Ars Amatoria
Remedia Amoris
Heroides (16-21)
Metamorphoses
Tristia
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Punica. 17 books. About the Second Punic War. 91 CE
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Thebaid. (12 books) Published in 92.
Silvae. 89-96 CE (5 books)
Achilleid. 94-95 CE(Unfinished; 1.5 books)
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'Translated' (?) Dictys' Ephemeridos belli Trojani
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Posthomerica in hexameters (14 books). Date controversial.
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Dionysiaca. 48 books.
Metabole. A poetic paraphrase of the Gospel of John. 3,500 lines of hexameters.
Bassarica (lost)
Battle of the Giants (lost)
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A Latin 'translation' of 'de excidio Trojae historia', professed to have been written by Dares Phrygius.
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Collected by Constantine Cephalas, who in turn drew on compilations of Agathias (6th c. AD), Strato (1st c. AD), Philip of Thessalonica (1st c. AD), Meleager of Gadara (1st c. BCE).
In the 14th c. Maximus Planudes compiled an anthology consisting of the Palatine Anthology poems along with 378 others.