The Ancient Greeks
Homer (8th century BC)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Thebais
The device of a plot was Homer’s invention: subsequent long poems, dramas, novels, and feature films are indebted to him. He is also the inventor of character in literature.
Hesiod (8th century BC)
The Works and Days
Theogony
Catalogue of Women
Bacchylides (5th century BC)
Archilochos (7th century BC)
Sappho (c.620 – c.565 BC)
Alkman
Pindar (518 – 438 BC)
The Odes
Nemean
Pythians
Olympians
Aeschylus (525 – 456 BC)
The Oresteia (458 BC):
Agamemnon
Choephoroe (Libation-Bearers)
Eumenides
Seven against Thebes (467 BC)
Prometheus Bound
The Suppliant Women (462/461 BC)
The Persians (472 BC)
Sophocles (c.496 – 406 BC)
Oedipus the King (429 BC)
Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC)
Antigone (441 BC)
Electra (staged 418 – 410 BC)
Ajax (441 BC)
Women of Trachis (430 BC)
Philoctetes (409 BC)
Ichneutae (Searching Satyrs)
Euripides (485 – 406 BC)
Electra (413 BC)
Cyclops
Heracles or Mad Heracles (Hercules Furens) (414 BC, performed c.420 BC)
Alcestis (438 BC)
Hecuba (Hecabe) (c.425/424 BC)
The Bacchae (The Bacchants)(shown 405 BC)
Orestes (408 BC)
Andromache (430/424 BC)
Medea (431 BC)
Ion (c.411 BC)
Hippolytus (428 BC)
Helen (412 BC)
Iphigeneia at Aulis (performed 406/405 BC)
The Phoenician Women (c.410 BC)
The Trojan Women (415 BC)
The Heraclidae (The Children of Heracles) (c.429/427 BC)
The Suppliant Women (c.422/421 BC)
Appolonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC)
The Argonautica
The Clouds (423 BC)
The Birds (414 BC)
The Frogs (405 BC)
Lysistrata (Demobilize the Army) (411 BC)
The Knights (Hippeis)
The Wasps (422 BC)
The Assemblywomen (also called The Parliament of Women)
The Peace (performed in 421 BC)
The Thesmophoriazusae (411 or 410 BC)
The Ecclesiazusae
Plutus (388 BC)
Herodotus (c.480 – 425 BC), father of history
The History (nine books)
Thucydides (c.460 – c.400 BC)
The Peloponnesian War
Heraclitus (c.540 – c.470 BC)
Empedocles (c.490 – c.430 BC)
Plato (427 – 347 BC)
Symposium (360 BC)
Dialogues
Republic (Politeia) (380s or 370s BC)
Statesman (Politicus) (360s BC)
Laws (350s and 340s BC)
Cratylus
Phaedo
Gorgias
Protagoras
Theaetetus (c.368 BC)
Sophist
Apology
Phaedrus
Euthyphro
Crito
Charmides
Laches
Lesser Hippias
Greater Hippias
Meno
Parmenides (c.370 BC)
Timaeus
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
Ethics
Poetics
On Generation and Corruption
Rhetoric
Metaphysics
Sophistical Refutations
Politics
On the Sky
Hellenistic Greeks
Menander (? 342 –291 BC)
The Girl from Samos
Longinus, Dionysius Cassius
On the Sublime
Callimachus (c.310 – c.240 BC)
Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus
Idylls
Plutarch (AD c.46 – c.120)
Lives
Themistocles
Cimon
On the Malice of Herodotus (De Malignitate Herodoti)
Pericles
Timoleon
Demosthenes
Aesop (c.620 – c.560 BC)
Fables
Lucian (AD 117 – c.180)
Satires
The Romans
Plautus, Titus Maccius (c.254 – c.184 BC)
The Braggart Soldier
Pseudolus
The Rope
Amphitryon
Terence, Publius Terentius Afer (c.190 -? 159 BC)
The Eunuch
The Girl from Andros
The Mother-in-law
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus (? 97 – 54 BC)
The Way Things Are
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 – 43 BC)
On the Gods
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 – 8 BC)
Satires
Epistles
Persius, Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34 – 62)
Satires
Catullus, Gauis Valerius (84 – 54 BC)
Attis
Vergil (Virgil), Publius Vergilius Maro (70 – 19 BC)
Eclogues
The Aeneid
Georgics
Lucan, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (AD 39 – 65)
Pharsalia
Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso (c.43 BC – AD 17)
The Art of Love
Metamorphoses
Epistulae heroidum or Heroides
Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis (AD c.60 – 140)
Satires
Livy, Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17)
Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis (AD? 43 -? 104)
Epigrams
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4 BC – AD 65)
Tragedies (Medea, Hercules furens)
Petronius, Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Satyricon
Apuleius, Lucius
The Golden Ass
Works Cited and Consulted:
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.
Grant, Michael. The Classical Greeks. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989.
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