Classical Literature

Homer, Greek tragedy, and Latin epic poetry.

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1. Classical Literature

A survey of the epic, tragic, comic, and lyric traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, from Homer's oral epics to the Latin poets and prose writers who together founded the literature of the Western world.