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Map of the Greek world
1. Homer Iliad: Zeus, fate and the death of Sarpedon
2. Homer Odyssey: Calypso is ordered by the gods to release Odysseus
3. Herodotus The Histories: the battle of Salamis
4. Aeschylus Persians: the battle of Salamis
5. Sophocles Antigone: Antigone confronts Creon
6. Euripides Alcestis: Alcestis' farewell to Admetus
7. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War: the revolt of Mytilene
8. Sophocles Philoctetes: Neoptolemus tries to persuade Philoctetes
9. Euripides Bacchae: Pentheus and Dionysus
10. Aristophanes Frogs: Dionysus in the underworld
11. Plato Apology of Socrates: Socrates and the nature of death
12. Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae (Assemblywomen): power to women?
13. Xenophon Oeconomicus (The estate manager): the duties of husband and wife
14. Demosthenes On the Crown: news of disaster at Elatea
15. Demosthenes Against Conon: harassment on military service
16. Aristotle Poetics: tragic action and the tragic hero
17. Menander Perikeiromene (The girl with the cut hair): how to get your mistress to forgive you
18. Plutarch Life of Antony: the death of Cleopatra
19. Plutarch On the Decline of Oracles: Great Pan is dead
20. New Testament Acts of the Apostles: St Paul in Athens
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