6 items tagged #classics

Dionysus goes down to Hades to bring back a poet and ends up judging Aeschylus against Euripides. Aristophanes' comedy of 405 BC in Benjamin Bickley Rogers's verse translation, set as a script.

Euripides' lost Auge as a picture book, built only from the scraps that survive: quoted lines, single words in old dictionaries, and what other writers said about the play.

Euripides wrote a play about a priestess who gave birth inside a temple. It is gone, but Diogenes Laertius, Plato, a comic poet, and a travel writer each kept a piece of it without meaning to.

The Old English epic as a picture book, a few dozen lines to a page, in Francis B. Gummere's 1910 verse translation with the original alongside.

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter as a picture book, one passage to a page, in Hugh G. Evelyn-White's 1914 translation.

Persephone taken below, Demeter's grief, a year without harvest, and the founding of the Eleusinian Mysteries, in the Greek with Hugh G. Evelyn-White's 1914 translation.