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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
5:44 The Lost Tragic Plays
16:00 The Lost Epic Poems
22:12 Did the Church Burn Sappho's Poetry?
Resources used:
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC. Edited and translated by Martin L. West. Loeb Classical Library 497. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Wright, Matthew. In The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy: Volume 1: Neglected Authors. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
SEGAL, CHARLES. “Lament and Recognition: A Reconsideration of the Ending of the ‘Bacchae.’” Illinois Classical Studies 24/25 (1999): 273–91. jstor.org/stable/23065372.
livius.org/sources/content/epic-cycle
S. J. Gąsiorowski. “A Fragment of a Greek Illustrated Papyrus from Antinoë.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17, no. 1/2 (1931): 1–9. doi.org/10.2307/3854814.
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Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/6341226-c-dubois
Video Request form: https://forms.gle/FcdBtFMnrRR7eGrd9
DISCLAIMER
I am just a random student on the internet who loves reading, especially about ancient history and classics. The purpose of my videos is to make classics and ancient history interesting and accessible to everyone. I am not a professional or qualified educator, “expert”, historian or classicist. However, I ensure that all the information I use in my video scripts has been collated from numerous credible sources. Additionally, I am dyslexic, and I will mispronounce words. This does not stem from willful ignorance, and I do make an effort to research how to pronounce words before I start filming, but I often misread my phonetic spelling. In light of this, please do not rely on my video for an authoritative or reliable source of how to pronounce certain words.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
5:44 The Lost Tragic Plays
16:00 The Lost Epic Poems
22:12 Did the Church Burn Sappho's Poetry?
Resources used:
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC. Edited and translated by Martin L. West. Loeb Classical Library 497. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Wright, Matthew. In The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy: Volume 1: Neglected Authors. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
SEGAL, CHARLES. “Lament and Recognition: A Reconsideration of the Ending of the ‘Bacchae.’” Illinois Classical Studies 24/25 (1999): 273–91. jstor.org/stable/23065372.
livius.org/sources/content/epic-cycle
S. J. Gąsiorowski. “A Fragment of a Greek Illustrated Papyrus from Antinoë.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17, no. 1/2 (1931): 1–9. doi.org/10.2307/3854814.
