TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook, James Wyatt,
TI  - Encyclopedia of ancient literature
SN  - 9780816064755 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - PN621 .C66 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Facts On File
KW  - Literature, Ancient
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Contains more than 500 entries on literary topics, works, and writers of the ancient world, from the beginning to approximately 500 C.E. Coverage ranges from ancient Greece and Rome to China,Egypt,Japan,India,Persia,Babylonia,the Hebrew world. Coverage includes writers( Aeschylus,Aesop, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar,Cicero,Confucius, Demosthenes, Euclid, Flavius, Josephus, Hammurabi, Herodotus, Homer, Horace, Kakinomoto,no Hitomaro, Menander, Plato, Sappho,sima Qian, Sophocles, thucydides, Virgil, Yamanoque no Okura, and Zoroaster), famous works( Aenid, Antigone, Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Gilgamesh Epic, the Hebrew Bible, the History of the Peloponnesian War, the Iliad,Medea, the Metamorphoses, the Nart Sagas, the New Testament, the Odyssey, the Oresteia, the Ramayan, the Rig-Veda and the Trojan Women), literary and historical terms such as alphabet,hubris, epic, quipu, rosetta Stone, etc
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