Mythology: Other literary works

By A.W.H. Adkins &

Britannica Editors

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Other literary works

Fragmentary post-Homeric epics of varying date and authorship filled the gaps in the accounts of the Trojan War recorded in the Iliad and Odyssey. The Homeric Hymns—a series of 34 poems addressing the gods by unknown authors but ascribed to Homer—are the source of several important religious myths. Many of the lyric poets preserved various myths, but the odes of Pindar of Thebes (flourished 6th–5th century bce) are particularly rich in myth and legend. The works of the three tragedians—Aeschylus (author of the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound), Sophocles (author of Antigone and Oedipus Rex), and Euripides (author of Medea and Andromache), all of the 5th century bce—are remarkable for the variety of the traditions they preserve.

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