Archaic Antics
This poet from Boeotia wrote Works and Days and Theogony, offering a farmer’s guide and the genealogy of the gods.
Hesiod
This 2004 epic film, Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen stars this actor as Achilles.
Brad Pitt
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
"Perhaps it will be pleasing to remember even these things one day."
Vergil's Aeneid
This dialogue, one of Plato's earliest works, focuses on Socrates' defense of his life and philosophy before the Athenian court.
The Apology
This Camp Half-Blood activity director wears leopard-print shirts and loves Diet Coke
Dionysus
Sappho, often called the tenth muse, originated from this Greek island.
Lesbos
The story of these two brothers might be thought of as an adaptation of the Greek stories of the birth of Oedipus or the birth of Theseus.
Romulus and Remus
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
"Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow."
Horace's Odes
In this dialogue, Socrates discusses the immortality of the soul and his impending death.
The Phaedo
Percy travels to the Underworld in The Lightning Thief to retrieve this item, which has been stolen from Zeus.
The Master Bolt
This Ionian philosopher from Miletus is considered to be amongst the first recorded Western philosophers and believed everything derived from water.
Thales
The Homeric epics might be thought to be adaptations of this extremely ancient Sumerian Epic.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
διὰ γὰρ τὸ θαυμάζειν οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ νῦν καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἤρξαντο φιλοσοφεῖν
"It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize"
Aristotle's Metaphysics
This famous myth, which inspired Tolkiens' own legend, is found in book II of the Republic.
The Ring of Gyges
In The Sea of Monsters, Percy sails into dangerous waters to retrieve this object, which protects Camp Half-Blood.
The Golden Fleece
This 7th-century BCE poet from the island of Paros is one of the earliest known lyric poets. Famous for his biting invective and personal attacks, he scandalized later audiences by boasting of throwing away his shield in battle—valuing survival over heroism.
Archilochus
An adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is expected to be produced by Christopher Nolan starring this actor as Telemachus.
Tom Holland
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
"Such great evils could religion persuade."
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
the drinking party described by Plato's Symposium is held at this playwright's house, who also gives a speech on love.
Agathon
This sword appears as a pen when not in use.
Riptide
This early 5th-century BCE writer from Miletus is considered one of the first Greek historians and geographers. In his work Genealogiai (Genealogies), he tried to systematize and rationalize Greek myth, famously beginning with, "I write what I consider to be true; for the stories of the Greeks are many and ridiculous." His Periegesis offered a descriptive geography of the known world.
Hecateus of Miletus
In a manner resembling a story from Herodotus in which a tyrant cuts of the head of poppies in order to signify his wish for leading members of a foreign city to be killed, the son of this Roman tyrant had the leading men of Gabii killed in Livy's Histories.
Tarquinius Superbus
ἐπεὶ χρόνος δίκαιον ἄνδρα δείκνυσιν μόνος:
κακὸν δὲ κἂν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ γνοίης μιᾷ.
time alone reveals a just man. But you can discern a bad man even in one day alone.
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
In this dialogue, named after a famous pre-socratic, the titular interlocutor discusses the nature of "the one"
The Parmenides
This character, daughter of Hades, is able to shadow-travel and helps rescue Percy and Annabeth in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
Nico