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What can close readings of Greek and Latin literature tell us about the Classical world - and our world?
Talking mice, epicurean delights and farming: What lays at the heart of Horace's carpe diem?
The same story gets a different treatment to fit the times of the retelling, as shown by competing Oedipus myths.
You can discover real lives of classical Greece in literature, but it takes a closer reading to find the real women.