(As I read more of this text, I will keep adding to this post with book-by-book summaries, so don’t forget to come back and check
Category: Literature
The Meno begins with Meno asking Socrates a question: Can virtue be taught, or is it only learnt through experience, or is one simply virtuous
Book One Herodotus begins his Histories with an opening sentence that states his intentions in writing the account: he aims to record the deeds of
This is an analysis of the writer Herodotus himself and the background and context that led to his account The Histories. I’m going to be
I loved this play! It was certainly one of my favourites of Euripides’. It tells the post-Trojan-War story of three women: Andromache, wife of Hector
Euripides’ Hippolytus Synopsis The goddess Aphrodite, angered by a man called Hippolytus’ chastity and dismissal of her, decides to take action. She makes Hippolytus’ step-mother
Brief synopsis Euripides’ Medea tells the well-known Greek myth of the woman Medea who, upon discovering that her husband Jason of the Argonauts had left
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of Classical Greek theatre, alongside Sophocles and Aeschylus. He was supposedly born in Salamis in 480
INTRODUCTION Aeschylus, often described as the Father of Tragedy by both his Greek contemporaries and modern scholars, was born in c. 525 BCE in Sicily,