Greek Lyric Poetry
Department
of Classics, Monmouth College
COURSE HANDOUTS AND STUDY GUIDES
Chronology / Timeline of Roman History / Greek Pantheon / The Major Gods
List of Important Places / Sample Map Quiz /
Homeric Epics
Odyssey, VIII.265 (Song of Demodokus:
Affair of Aphrodite and Ares)
Iliad, XIV.154-360 (Hera's
Seduction of Zeus)
Lyric Poetry: Important Terms / Lyric Poetry: Some Study Questions / Housman on Poetry / Some Themes in Lyric Poetry
Images of Lyre and Flute Players: youth playing lyre / flute lesson / girl playing flute / lyre lesson / athletes and flutist / Chigi vase (flutist with hoplites)
Images: Sappho reading / Sappho and Alcaeus
Sappho's Poems (Order of Discussion) / Sappho 16 / Sappho's Prayer to Aphrodite / Review of Sappho's Immortal Daughters / Sappho website
Solon: Fragments / Solon's Reforms
Vergil Website / Catullus Project / Pagina Amicorum Nasonis (Ovid)
Other Classics websites you may find useful
This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.
