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Author, date, genre and significance of Works and Days?

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  • Hesiod
  • Written 7th Century BCE
  • Didactic poetry
  • Tells the story of the creation of the first woman

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Author, date, genre and significance of the Iliad?

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  • Homer
  • Unknown creation date, but first written down c. 8th Century BCE)
  • Epic poetry
  • The oldest surviving Greek story, tells us about a portion of the Trojan war
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Author, date, genre and significance of Helen?

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  • Euripides
  • 412 BCE
  • Tragic drama (tragedy)
  • A different version of the Helen story, where she is blameless
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Author, date, genre and significance of the History of Rome?

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  • Livy
  • 1st Century BCE
  • History
  • Tells the story of Roman history from the city’s mythological origins to Livy’s own lifetime
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Author, date, genre and significance of Laudatio Turiae?

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  • Unknown author
  • 1st Century BCE
  • Eulogy
  • One of the longest funerary inscriptions that survives from Roman times
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Author, date, genre and significance of The Life of Pericles?

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  • Plutarch
  • 1st Century CE
  • Biography
  • REcords Athenian attitudes towards Aspasia as part of a biography of Pericles
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Author, date, genre and significane of Love Poems 7, 8, 83?

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  • Catallus
  • 1st Century BCE
  • Elegy (love poetry)
  • Love poetry between poet and his illicit girlfriend, Lesbia
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Author, date, genre and significance of the Pro Caelio?

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  • Cicero
  • 1st Century BCE
  • Legal speech
  • A speech from a court case about a murder- the speaker attacks Clodia’s character in order to discredit her testimony
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Author, date, genre and significance of The Assemblywomen?

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  • Aristophanes
  • 391 BCE
  • Comic drama (comedy)
  • A comedy about how ridiculous it would be if women had political power
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Author, date, genre and significance of The Conspiracy of Catiline?

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  • Sallust
  • 1st Century BCE
  • History
  • An account of a failed conspiracy to overthrow the Roman government
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Author, date, genre and significance of The Aeneid?

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  • Virgil
  • 1st Century BCE
  • Epic Poetry
  • A Roman epic poem, composed to praise Augustus and to mythologies Rome’s origin story
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Author, date, genre and significance of Medea?

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  • Euripides
  • 431 BCE
  • Tragic drama (tragedy)
  • A terrifying look at what happens when a powerful woman is wronged
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Artist, date, style, purpose and original location of the Hegeso Stele?

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  • Callimachus
  • 410-400 BCE
  • Classical style
  • Relief sculpture, funerary monument
  • The Kerameikos Cemetary, just outside Athens
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Artist, date, style, purpose and original location of the Ampharete Stele?

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  • Unknown artist
  • c. 400 BCE
  • Classical style
  • Relief sculpture, funerary monument
  • The Kerameikos Cemetary
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Artist, date, purpose and original location of the Sappho Fresco?

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  • Unknown
  • First Century CE
  • Fresco, to decorate a home
  • A luxurious private villa in Pompeii
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Artist, date, style, purpose and original location of the Parthenon Frieze?

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  • Possibly Phidias (commissioned by Pericles)
  • 443-438 BCE
  • Classical style
  • High relief sculpture, temple decoration
  • The Parthenon, the Athenian Acropolis
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Artist, date, style, purpose and original location of the Maenad Cup?

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  • Unknown
  • C. 490-480 BCE
  • White ground vase painting
  • Drinking Cup
  • Unknown location
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Architect, date, purpose and original location of the Atrium Vestae?

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  • Unknown
  • 113 CE (after the Republican Period)
  • Large scale house
  • The Roman Forum, adjacent to the Temple of Vesta
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Artist, date, style, and purpose of the Pudicitia statue?

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  • Unknown
  • 1st Century CE
  • Portrait sculpture
  • Freestanding portrait sculpture to commemorate and celebrate the woman
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Artist, date, style, purpose and original location of the Amazonomach Frieze?

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  • Unknown
  • c. 420-400 BCE
  • Classical style
  • High relief sculpture, commissioned to thank Apollo after a plague passed
  • Temple of Apollo at Bassae
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Artist, date, style and purpose of the Flight of Medea Krater?

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  • Unknown
  • c. 400 BCE
  • Red Figure Vase Painting
  • Krater (mixing bowl) used for diluting wine at a symposium

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