3: Classical Greece and Rome
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- 3.8.1: Agamemnon and Iphigenia
- 3.8.2: Aphrodite
- 3.8.3: Apollo
- 3.8.4: Ares
- 3.8.5: The Argonauts
- 3.8.6: Artemis
- 3.8.7: Athena
- 3.8.8: Bacchus
- 3.8.9: Caduceus
- 3.8.10: Centaurs
- 3.8.11: Chthonian Deities
- 3.8.12: The Delphic Oracle
- 3.8.13: Demeter
- 3.8.14: Dionysus
- 3.8.15: Hades
- 3.8.16: Hephaestus
- 3.8.17: Hera
- 3.8.18: Heracles
- 3.8.19: Hermes
- 3.8.20: Hestia
- 3.8.21: Jason
- 3.8.22: Miasma
- 3.8.23: The Minotaur
- 3.8.24: Origins
- 3.8.25: Orpheus
- 3.8.26: Persephone
- 3.8.27: Perseus
- 3.8.28: Poseidon
- 3.8.29: Prometheus
- 3.8.30: Sphinx
- 3.8.31: Theseus
- 3.8.32: The Twelve Labors of Heracles
- 3.8.33: Xenia
- 3.8.34: Zeus
- 3.12: Book- The Illiad (Homer)
- The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
- 3.12.1: Books
- 3.12.1.1: Book I
- 3.12.1.2: Book II
- 3.12.1.3: Book III
- 3.12.1.4: Book IV
- 3.12.1.5: Book V
- 3.12.1.6: Book VI
- 3.12.1.7: Book VII
- 3.12.1.8: Book VIII
- 3.12.1.9: Book IX
- 3.12.1.10: Book X
- 3.12.1.11: Book XI
- 3.12.1.12: Book XII
- 3.12.1.13: Book XIII
- 3.12.1.14: Book XIV
- 3.12.1.15: Book XV
- 3.12.1.16: Book XVI
- 3.12.1.17: Book XVII
- 3.12.1.18: Book XVIII
- 3.12.1.19: Book XIX
- 3.12.1.20: Book XX
- 3.12.1.21: Book XXI
- 3.12.1.22: Book XXII
- 3.12.1.23: Book XXIII
- 3.12.1.24: Book XXIV
- 3.14: Book- The Odyssey (Homer)
- The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is a fundamental work in the modern Western canon, being the oldest extant piece of Western literature, second to the Iliad. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
- 3.14.1: Books
- 3.14.1.1: Book I
- 3.14.1.2: Book II
- 3.14.1.3: Book III
- 3.14.1.4: Book IV
- 3.14.1.5: Book V
- 3.14.1.6: Book VI
- 3.14.1.7: Book VII
- 3.14.1.8: Book VIII
- 3.14.1.9: Book IX
- 3.14.1.10: Book X
- 3.14.1.11: Book XI
- 3.14.1.12: Book XII
- 3.14.1.13: Book XIII
- 3.14.1.14: Book XIV
- 3.14.1.15: Book XV
- 3.14.1.16: Book XVI
- 3.14.1.17: Book XVII
- 3.14.1.18: Book XVIII
- 3.14.1.19: Book XIX
- 3.14.1.20: Book XX
- 3.14.1.21: Book XXI
- 3.14.1.22: Book XXII
- 3.14.1.23: Book XXIII
- 3.14.1.24: Book XXIV
- 3.18: Book- Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
- Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, howeve