— Anonymous Medea, the name of a women whose sacrifices does not have any limit. For me these poem is really sad and hurtful because here I could see a women who took all the danger for the only person she loves in her whole life but in the end of the day left her […]
Ancient and Classical (1200BCE–455CE)
In my opinion, good literature is timeless and placeless…
— Anonymous In my opinion, good literature is timeless and placeless. It does not matter when it was written and created. On account of being timeless and placeless, I am trying to imply that the themes of the work and therefore the messages communicated by the story are what matter more, irrelevant of what time […]
For one to be considered great…
—Anonymous For one to be considered great, it has to be considerably above the normal or average. Any literature can be good, but it’s different for a literature to be considered a “Great Work.” In order for a story to be considered a “Great Work”, it must have lessons that pertain to one’s life no […]
To be left with a sense of awe…
—Ana Bushi To be left with a sense of awe and wanting to know the full story, is for me an indicator of something great in measure. This is what I experienced after I was done with reading the assigned parts from The 1001 Nights and The Mahabharata, and this is why I would consider […]
I had an idea that I would be reading…
—Ana Bushi I had an idea that I would be reading a Homeric work as soon as I knew that I was going to enroll for an English course on “great works of literature”, so The Odyssey did not come as a surprise to me. I believe that it is fair to consider this literary […]