Trojan War Literature
35 entries in the Trojan War Literature compendium.
Trojan War in literature and the artsThe Trojan War as a lasting muse across creative forms.AchilleidUnfinished epic on Achilles' life from youth to Troy.Age of Bronze (comics)A comics retelling of the Trojan War legend.Andromache (play)Euripides' tragedy of Andromache's enslavement and conflict with Hermione.AndromaqueRacine's tragedy of unrequited love and passion.Benoît de Sainte-Maure12th-century French poet of the Trojan War romance.Catullus 68Catullus 68 intertwines personal grief with Trojan myth.Dares PhrygiusTrojan priest and purported author of a medieval war account.Deidamia AchilliAn 11th-century Latin verse epistle from Deidamia to Achilles.Dictys CretensisLegendary Cretan companion of Idomeneus and purported war diarist.The Dismissal of the Greek EnvoysA Polish Renaissance tragedy on the eve of the Trojan War.Electra (Euripides play)A tragedy questioning heroism, gender, and divine morality.Helen (play)Euripides' drama of Helen's Egyptian exile and phantom double.Hermoniakos' IliadA Byzantine paraphrase of the Iliad in vernacular Greek, commissioned by the Despot of Epirus.Iphigenia in TaurisEuripides' escape drama of Iphigenia's priesthood and Orestes' quest.Laud Troy BookAnonymous Middle English chivalric romance of the Trojan War.Publius Lollius MaximusRoman soldier, friend of Horace, cited by Chaucer as a Trojan War historian.Odyssey (Alexander Pope translation)Pope's heroic-couplet translation of Homer's Odyssey.Odyssey (George Chapman translation)First complete English translation of Homer's Odyssey.Odyssey (Richmond Lattimore translation)A faithful line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey.Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)A poetic English translation of Homer's Odyssey by Robert Fagles.Orestes (play)Euripides' play on Orestes after matricide.Philoctetes (Aeschylus play)A lost Aeschylean tragedy about the retrieval of Philoctetes.Philoctetes (Euripides play)Lost Euripidean tragedy about the abandoned archer Philoctetes.Philoctetes (Sophocles play)Sophocles' tragedy of deception, trauma, and the bow of Heracles.PosthomericaEpic poem completing the Trojan War narrative after the Iliad.Rawlinson Excidium TroieMedieval manuscript with a Trojan War account independent of Dictys and Dares.Recuyell of the Historyes of TroyeFirst book printed in English, translated by William Caxton.Rhesus (play)A disputed Euripidean tragedy set during the Trojan War.Roman de TroieA 30,000-line medieval epic retelling the Trojan War.Sappho 16Sappho's love poem using Helen of Troy as an exemplum.Sappho 44Sappho's longest surviving fragment, on Hector and Andromache's wedding.Song of the Watchmen of ModenaAnonymous ninth-century Latin lyric for Modena's wall guards.TeichoscopyA narrative strategy where characters observe events from walls.The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)First complete English translation of Homer's Odyssey by a woman.
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