The writing of this book would not have been possible without studying the classical authors. However, it can be read without any problems without first consulting the classical writers! So: if you haven't read these writers yet, don't bother! The author of Ariadne of Europe has already done that for you…
Thus many texts and story lines are derived from:
Homer (Greek poet, approx. 8th century BC.); Iliad; Odyssey
Hesiod (Greek writer from Boeotia, 8th century BC.), Theogonia; Catalogue of Women
Nonnos of Panopolis (Greek poet from Egypt, 5th century BC.); Dionysiaca
Hammurabi (king of Babylonia 1792 - 1750 BC.); Codex
Herodotus (Greek historian from Halicarnassus, 484 - 425 BC.); The Persian Wars
Thucydides (Greek historian appr. 460 BC.); The Peloponnesian War
Plato (Athens, c. 427 BC - 347 BC., Greek philosopher and writer); Phaedo
Apollonius Rhodius (Greek writer, Rhodes, 3rd century BC.); Argonautica
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman rhetorician and lawyer, Rome, 106-43 BC.); De Natura Deorum
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, 43 BC. - 17/18 AD); Metamorphoses
Pausanias (Greek writer c. 115 AD Lydia - 180 AD, Rome); Description of Greece
Pseudo-Apollodorus (unknown Greek mythographer, 2nd century AD); Bibliotheca
Hyginus (Gaius Iulius Hyginus, Roman librarian and mythographer, 2nd century AD); Fabulae
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