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Medea
The tragedy Medea was written in 431 BCE by Euripides (c. 484 &ndash...
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Prometheus Bound
The Greek dramatist Aeschylus (c. 525 - c. 456 BCE) ...
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Twelve Greatest Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts are, as their name suggests, hand-made...
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Book of Kells
The Book of Kells (c. 800 CE) is an illuminated manuscript of the...
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Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King (429-420 BCE), also known as Oedipus...
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Works and Days
Works and Days is an epic poem written in dactylic hexameter...
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Theogony
The Theogony is an 8th-century BCE didactic and instructional...
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Byzantine Icons
Icons, that is images of holy persons, were an important part of...
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The Eloquent Peasant & Egyptian Justice
The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is a literary work from the Middle...
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