A towering figure in the history of medicine was the physician Hippocrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC), considered the "Father of Modern Medicine." The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of abou ...
The origins of Greek mathematics are not easily documented. The earliest advanced civilizations in the country of Greece and in Europe were the Minoan and later Mycenean civilization, both of which fl ...
In Boeotia, the homeland of Hesiod, a tradition persisted that the Muses had once been three in number. Diodorus Siculus quotes Hesiod to the contrary, observing:Writers similarly disagree also concer ...
References to identifiable stars and constellations appear in the writings of Homer and Hesiod, the earliest surviving examples of Greek literature. In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer refers to the f ...
Aristotle's Poetics clearly defines aspects of literature and introduces many literary terms still used today.Classical and medieval criticism Literary criticism has probably existed for as long as li ...
The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the state of Athens' tragedians, travels to Hades (the underworld) to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead. (Euripides ha ...
Lysistrata belongs to the middle period of Aristophanes' career when he was beginning to diverge significantly from the conventions of Old Comedy. Such variations from convention include:The divided C ...
LYSISTRATA: There are a lot of things about us women That sadden me, considering how men See us as rascals. CALONICE: As indeed we are!These lines, spoken by Lysistrata and her friend Calonice at the ...
Euripides's play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begin ...
The Bacchae has been the subject of widely varying interpretations regarding what the play as a whole means, or even indeed whether there is a “moral” to the story.The extraordinary beauty and passi ...
Medea is centered on a wife’s calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jason ‘s quest for the Golden Fleece, where he met Medea. The p ...
At the beginning of the play Oedipus is portrayed as the hero, who delivered Thebes from the terror of the Sphinx.you are the first of men both in the experiences of life and in dealing with unseen-po ...
As is the case in most climactic drama, much of what constitutes the myth of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. In his youth, Laius was a guest of King Pelops of Elis, and becam ...
Sophocles, the son of Sophilus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Colonus Hippius in Attica, which was to become a setting for one of his plays, and he was probably born ther ...
Western literature, also known as European literature, refers to the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European ...
