The Oxford Companion to Classical LiteratureSir Paul Harvey |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according Aeneas Aeneid Aeschylus Alexander ancient Apollo appears Argos Aristophanes Aristotle army Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attic Augustus battle became Boeotia centre character chief chorus Cicero citizens Claudius comedy consul Corinth daughter death defeated Delphi Demosthenes dialogue Dionysus early Egypt emperor empire epic Euripides famous father festival fragments Gaul Germanicus goddess gods Greece Greek mythology Heracles Hesiod Homer Horace important influence inscriptions Italy Julius Caesar killed king known later Latin legend literary literature lyric Macedon Macedonia married ment Metre Nero Odysseus orator origin Ovid Peloponnesian Peloponnesian War perhaps Pericles period Persian Philip philosopher Plato play Plutarch poem poet poetry political probably provinces Ptolemy Punic qq.v Quintilian religion Roman Rome satire Scipio Senate Seneca ships Sicily slaves Socrates Sparta speech Stoic story survive Syracuse temple Thebes Tiberius tion tragedy treatise Trojan Troy various verse victory Virgil wife wrote Zeus