id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1743 Ancient Greek literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 11691 1750 70 Numerous figures from classical literature and mythology appear throughout The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.[155] Plutarch's Lives were a major influence on William Shakespeare and served as the main source behind his tragedies Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.[156]:883–884 Shakespeare's comedies A Comedy of Errors and The Twelfth Night drew heavily on themes from Graeco-Roman New Comedy.[156]:881–882 Meanwhile, Shakespeare's tragedy Timon of Athens was inspired by a story written by Lucian[157] and his comedy Pericles, Prince of Tyre was based on an adaptation of the ancient Greek novel Apollonius of Tyre found in John Gower's Confessio Amantis.[158] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1743.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1743.txt