bouncing off of @an-ruraiocht’s Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid poll I’m curious about some other ancient Greek and Roman texts
Which of the following Greek or Roman texts would you say you are most familiar with?
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Vergil)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Medea (Euripides)
The Bacchae (Euripides)
Another Greek tragedy (tell me in the tags!)
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Pharsalia/Bellum Civile (Lucan)
Thebaid (Statius)
Another Greek or Roman epic poem (tell me in the tags!)
Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours
#this was hard to say but i voted iliad because i studied it the most for my degree#i mean even when deeply studying other texts we always also had to read the iliad and talk about homer’s influence#i’ve also taken multiple homeric greek classes and have read the iliad in full in ancient greek and i can recite passages in the greek#the odyssey is a close second for the same reasons but the iliad just was used more in scholarship (and i do favor it)#then it’s definitely euripides’ medea i know that text like the back of my hand i wrote an 80+ page paper on it for independent study#and i also read it in the greek obviously but like the iliad was a huge source when i was writing that paper about medea lol#but like in general i’m super familiar with homer and 5th century plays
