Composed around the same time as Homer, Hesiod's works helped establish Greek religious customs throughout antiquity, providing a major source on mythology and

Homer, the legendary author of ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, was regarded by the ancient Greeks to be the first and greatest of the epic poets. His wor

The famous third century Father of the Church, Clement of Alexandria was an eclectic neo-Platonic philosopher, who later found a new philosophy in Christianity,

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The inventor of the bucolic genre, Theocritus of Syracuse was a learned poet, who refashioned traditional literary forms in original and highly polished verse o