Poetry & drama
Epic, tragedy, comedy, satire and lyric: the poems and plays that carried the classical world.
Key terms: ποίησις (poiesis), τραγῳδία (tragodia), comoedia, carmen, drama — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- Agamemnon
- Prometheus Bound
- Seven Against Thebes
- The Eumenides
- The Libation Bearers
- The Persians
- The Suppliants
- Argonautica
- The Golden Ass
- Acharnians
- Birds
- Clouds
- Ecclesiazusae
- Frogs
- Knights
- Lysistrata
- Peace
- Thesmophoriazusae
- Wasps
- Wealth
- The Alchemist
- Volpone
- Poems
- The Faerie Queene, Book I
- Homilies: On Our Lord; On Admonition and Repentance; On the Sinful Woman
- Hymns for the Feast of the Epiphany
- Hymns on the Faith ("The Pearl")
- Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh
- Nisibene Hymns
- Alcestis
- Andromache
- Cyclops
- Electra
- Hecuba
- Helen
- Heracleidae
- Heracles
- Hippolytus
- Ion
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- Medea
- Orestes
- Rhesus
- The Bacchae
- The Phoenician Women
- The Suppliants
- The Trojan Women
- The Canterbury Tales
- Theogony
- Works and Days
- Iliad
- Odyssey
- Ars Poetica
- Epistles
- Odes
- Satires
- Holy Sonnets
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regained
- Samson Agonistes
- Satires
- Epigrams
- Ars Amatoria
- Metamorphoses
- Letters to Lucilius
- Medea
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Happy Life
- On the Shortness of Life
- Phaedra
- Ajax
- Antigone
- Electra
- Oedipus Rex
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Philoctetes
- Trachiniae
- Idylls
- Aeneid
- Eclogues
- Georgics
- A Lover's Complaint
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sonnets
- The Comedy of Errors
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- Venus and Adonis
Aeschylus
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apuleius
Aristophanes
Ben Jonson
Catullus
Edmund Spenser
Ephrem the Syrian
Euripides
Geoffrey Chaucer
Hesiod
Homer
Horace
John Donne
John Milton
Juvenal
Martial
Ovid
Seneca
Sophocles
Theocritus
Virgil
William Shakespeare
Research guides
- New Book Reexamines Rediscovering Homer
- New Study Examines The Afterlife of Greek Tragedy: Cultural Memory, Identity, and the Transformation of Tragic Myth Across Historical Periods
- New Study Examines Teaching Ancient Greek in Late Byzantium: Manuel Moschopoulos’ Schedography and His Scholia to Homer’s Iliad and Hesiod’s Works and Days?
- New Study Examines Melodic repetition in the antistrophes of Greek tragedy
- New Study Reexamines A dog’s justice and Euripides’ death
- New Study Examines Euripides, Suppliant Women 442
- New Study Examines Tragedy and Politics in Horace, Odes 1.6
- New Study Examines Ovid in Exile and the Rhetoric of the Roman Frontier