The document lists and provides brief details about several notable ancient writers including Homer, who wrote the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey; Virgil, who wrote The Aeneid modeled after Homer's works; Hesiod, who wrote Theogony about the creation of the gods; Ovid, whose Metamorphoses included stories of transformations; Euripides, who wrote Medea about a wife seeking revenge; and Sophocles, who penned the tragedies Oedipus the King and Antigone.

1. Notable Ancient Writers
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2. HOMER
• Wrote THE ILLIAD: epic poem
written about the Trojan War
• Wrote THE ODYSSEY: Epic
poem about Odysseus traveling
home from the Trojan War
• The Blind Poet

3. VIRGIL
• Wrote AENEID: epic poem
written about Aeneas’s travels home
after the Trojan War
• Modeled after Homer’s writings

4. HESIOD
• Wrote THEOGONY: about the
creation of the universe & the gods
• Begins with Chaos
• Goes through the genealogy of the
gods

5. OVID
• Wrote METAMORPHOSES:
collection of poems about
transformations
• Begins with Creation
• Ends with Julius Caesar

6. EURIPIDES
• Wrote MEDEA: written about the
wife of Jason (the hero from the
Aeneid) and her revenge on him
when he betrayed her for another
woman

7. SOPHOCLES
• Wrote OEDIPUS THE KING:
tragic play about a king who
accidentally kills his father &
marries his mother
• Wrote ANTIGONE: daughter of
Oedipus, who wants to bury her
brother’s body, although doing it
would violate the law