... are from a much earlier time but written versions don't exist before Classical times. The oldest myths can be traced to three main sources: Homer, Hesiod and The Homeric Hymns, circa 800 b.c.e. That means that by the time they were written down, these works had survived 400 years ... Of his 54 comedies, only 11 have survived: the Acharnians, the Birds (generally regarded as his masterpiece), the Clouds, the Ecclesiazusae (the women in politics), the Frogs, the Knights, Lysistrata , Peace, Plutus (his last play), the Thesmophorizusae and the Wasps Euripides One of the three greatest trag...

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