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Athenaeus retells a story from Alexis’ lost work Linos. Mighty Heracles (think Archie’s Moose) visits his teacher, Linos. Linos shows Heracles his sophisticated library and allows him to choose a book. Browed furrowed, Heracles searches and finally…

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Paul (originally Saul) of Tarsus was an early Christian theologian and Evangelist. He wrote a broad range of correspondence with fledgling churches in the Eastern Mediterranean. These epistles, in koine Greek, are significant because they show Paul’s…

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Alexis was a Greek comic poet. He is said to have been a great gourmand, but to have lived to one hundred six and to have died on stage while receiving an award. His son Stephanus and his nephew Menander were both comic poets. Of his 245 comedies,…

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The editio princeps of Sappho. Her songs rank her with Pindar among the Greek lyric poets. Raised in Mytilene on Lesbos, but exiled to Sicily, she is known to have written more than 10,000 lines of poetry (about two-thirds the length of the Iliad),…

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Nichomachus was the name of three ancient Greek playwrights, one of whom is known to have written comedy. This play and the Ειλείθυια (Eileithyia) are attributed to him. The sole mention in ancient testimony is in the Suda.



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Homer wrote three epic poems: a tragedy in the Iliad, an adventure in the Odyssey, and a comedy, the Margites, the story of the eponymous bonehead of whom Plato said that he knew many things, but all badly. Aristotle said “...the Margites is to…
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