Geographical and Historical Materials

• Homer's physical universe
• Hecataeus' map of the world
• Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Mycenaean period (c. 1300 bc)
• the Aegean basin
  • physical geography
  • political divisions c. 650 bc

Literary Sources mentioned by Powell, ch. 3 (pp. 80 - 94)

• The Archaic Period (800 - 480 bc)
  • Hesiod
  • Homer
  • the Homeric Hymns
• The Classical Period (480 - 323 bc)
  • Pindar (518 - 438 bc)
  • Bacchylides
  • Tragedy
    • Aeschylus (525 - 456 bc)
    • Sophocles (496 - 406 bc)
    • Euripides (485 - 406 bc)
  • Hellenistic Period (323 - 146 bc)
    • Callimachus 305 - 240 bc)
    • Apollonius of Rhodes (3d c. bc)
  • Roman Period (146 bc - )
    • Catullus (84 - 54 bc)
    • Vergil (70-19 bc)
    • Livy (59 bc - ad 17)
    • Ovid (43 bc - ad 17)
    • Seneca (d. ad 68)
    • Apollodorus (fl. c. ad 120)
    • Pausanias (fl. c. ad 150)