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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND
GREEK
Background: Mythology, Heroic Age, Epic, Lyric (The Four Schools), Tragedy, Comedy.
Poetry Prose Drama
Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus,Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
Hesiod = Theogony Euripides =Medea Aristophanes = Lysistrata, Clouds ROMAN
Background: Mythology, Lyric, Pastoral, Tragedy, New Comedy, Closet Drama
Poetry Prose Drama
Virgil=Aeneid Cicero Seneca Eclogues Plautus and Terence
Horace= Ars Poetica
Ovid= Ars Amatoria Metamorphoses
Catullus
Propertius
EUROPEAN
Background: Civalry,Feudalism, Christian Mythology
Poetry Prose Drama
Song of Roland Boethius=Consolation of Philosophy Commedia del Arte
Roman de la Rose
Dante=Divine Comedy La Vita Nuova
Boccacio=Decameron
Petrarch
ENGLISH LITERATURE
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