Classical Authors

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Work	Author	Year	Prose or Verse	Genre	Language
Iliad	Homer	740	Verse	Epic	Greek
Odyssey	Homer	730	Verse	Epic	Greek
Works and Days	Hesiod	705	Verse	Didactic	Greek
Theogony	Hesiod	695	Verse	Didactic	Greek
	Archilochus		Verse	Lyric	Greek
Poems	Sappho	600	Verse		Greek
Persians	Aeschylus	472	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Seven Against Thebes	Aeschylus	467	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Suppliant Women	Aeschylus	463	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Agamemnon	Aeschylus	458	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Libation Bearers	Aeschylus	458	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Eumenides	Aeschylus	458	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Prometheus Bound	Aeschylus	456?	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Odes	Pindar	450?	Verse	Lyric	Greek
Ajax	Sophocles	442	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Antigone	Sophocles	441	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Women of Trachis	Sophocles	431?	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Oedipus the King	Sophocles	429	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Electra	Sophocles	410?	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Philoctetes	Sophocles	409	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Oedipus at Colonus	Sophocles	401	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Histories I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX	Herodotus	440	Prose	History	Greek
Alcestis	Euripides	438	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Medea	Euripides	431	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Children of Heracles	Euripides	430*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Hippolytus	Euripides	428	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Andromache	Euripides	425*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Hecuba	Euripides	424*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
The Suppliants	Euripides	423*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Electra	Euripides	420*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Madness of Heracles	Euripides	416*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Trojan Women	Euripides	415	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Iphigenia in Tauris	Euripides	414*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Ion	Euripides	414*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Helen	Euripides	412	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Phoenician Women	Euripides	410*	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Orestes	Euripides	408	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Bacchae	Euripides	405	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Iphigenia at Aulis	Euripides	405	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Rhesus	Euripides	440***	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
Cyclops	Euripides	408**	Verse	Tragedy	Greek
History of the Peloponnesian War I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII	Thucydides	431-410	Prose	History	Greek
The Acharnians	Aristophanes	425	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Knights	Aristophanes	424	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Clouds	Aristophanes	423	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Wasps	Aristophanes	422	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Peace	Aristophanes	421	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Birds	Aristophanes	414	Verse	Comedy	Greek
Lysistrata	Aristophanes	411	Verse	Comedy	Greek
Thesmophoriazusae	Aristophanes	411	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Frogs	Aristophanes	405	Verse	Comedy	Greek
The Assemblywomen	Aristophanes	392	Verse	Comedy	Greek
Wealth	Aristophanes	388	Verse	Comedy	Greek
Speeches 1-7, 8-13, 14-21, 22-29, 30-34	Lysias	403-380	Prose	Legal	Greek
Anabasis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Xenophon	370	Prose	History	Greek
Cyropaedia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Xenophon	370	Prose	History
Hellenica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Xenophon	-362	Prose	History
Agesilaus	Xenophon	360	Prose	Biography
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians	Xenophon	387-375	Prose
Memorabilia	Xenophon	370	Prose	Biography
Apology	Xenophon	386	Prose	History
Apology	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Crito	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Euthyphro	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Laches	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Ion	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Protagoras	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Charmides	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Lysis	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Republic (book 1)	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Gorgias	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Hippias major	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Hippias minor	Plato	399-390	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Euthydemus	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Meno	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Cratylus	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Menexenus	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Symposium	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Phaedo	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Republic	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Phaedrus	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Theaetetus	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Parmenides	Plato	388-367	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Sophist	Plato	365-361	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Statesman (aka Politicus)	Plato	365-361	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Philebus	Plato	360-348	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Timaeus	Plato	360-348	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Critias	Plato	360-348	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Laws	Plato	360-348	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Epinomis	Plato	360-348	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Letters 7 & 8	Plato	360-348	Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Speeches	Demosthenes		Prose	Legal	Greek
Speeches	Demosthenes		Prose	Political	Greek
	Aristotle		Prose	Philosophy	Greek
Dyskolos	Menander	317	Verse	Comedy	Greek
Samia	Menander	315-309	Verse	Comedy	Greek
	Menander		Verse	Comedy	Greek
	Callimachus		Verse		Greek
	Apollonius Rhodius		Verse	Epic	Greek
	Theocritus		Verse		Greek
	Ennius		Verse		Latin
	Plautus		Verse	Comedy	Latin
	Polybius		Prose		Greek
	Terence		Verse		Latin
	Cicero		Prose		Latin
	Julius Caesar		Prose	History	Latin
	Lucretius		Verse	Philosophy	Latin
	Catullus		Verse		Latin
	Sallust		Prose	History	Latin
Aeneid	Virgil		Verse		Latin
	Horace		Verse		Latin
	Livy		Prose		Latin
	Propertius		Verse		Latin
	Ovid		Verse		Latin
	Sulpicia		Verse		Latin
	Seneca		Prose and Verse		Latin
	Petronius		Prose		Latin
	Quintilian		Prose		Latin
	Lucan		Verse		Latin
	Martial		Verse		Latin
	Statius		Verse		Latin
	Plutarch		Prose		Greek
	Tacitus		Prose		Latin
	Pliny the Younger		Prose		Latin
	Suetonius		Prose		Latin
	Juvenal		Verse		Latin
	Lucian		Verse		Greek
Metamorphoses (Golden Ass)	Apuleius		Prose		Latin
Daphnis and Chloe	Longus		Prose		Greek
History of Rome	Cassius Dio		Prose		Greek

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