List of ancient Greek - Roman writers & Their Major works

List of ancient Greek - Roman writers & Their Major works

Ancient Greek literature
Greek and Roman Writers & their Mojor Books 📚

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Ancient Greek Writers

Homer (9th-8th centuries B.C.)

1. The Iliad
2. The Odyssey

Hesiod (8th-7th centuries B.C.)

1. Works and Days
2. Theogony
3. Shield of Heracles

Alcaeus (7th century B.C.)

Sappho (7th century B.C.) a female Greek poet

Aesop (620?-560? B.C.)

1. Aesop's Fables

Thales (600 B.C.) the first Greek mathematician and philosopher

1. Theognis (544 B.C.)
2. Thespis (535 B.C.)
3. Aeschylus (524?-456 B.C.)
4. The Persians (472 B.C.)

The Seven against Thebes (468 or 467 B.C.)

The Suppliants (463 B.C.)

Oresteia (458 B.C.)
Prometheus Bound (?)
Pindar (518?-438?B.C.)

Victory Odes

Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)

1. Ajax (451?B.C.)
2. Antigone (441 B.C.)
3. Oedipus Rex (409 B.C.)
4. Electra (409 B.C.)
5. The Trachiniae (409 B.C.)
6. Philoctetes (409 B.C.)
7. Oedipus at Colonus (401 B.C.)
8. Euripides (485-406 B.C.)
9. The Cyclops (438 B.C.)
10. Alcestis (438 B.C.)
11. Medea (431 B.C.)
12. The Heracleidae (428 B.C.)
13. Hippolytus (428 B.C.)
14. Andromache (427 B.C.)
15. Hecuba (425 B.C.)
16. The Suppliants (421 B.C.)
17. Heracles (422 B.C.)
18. Ion (417 B.C.)

The Trojan Women (415 B.C.)

1. Electra (413 B.C.)
2. Iphigenia in Tauris (413 B.C.)
3. Helena (412 B.C.)

The Phoenician Women (410 B.C.)

1. Orestes (408 B.C.)
2. The Bacchae (405 B.C.)
3. Iphigenia in Aulis (405 B.C.)

Socrates (469?-399 B.C.)

Lysias (458-380 B.C.)

Aristophanes (450-385 B.C.)

1. The Acharnians (425 B.C.)
2. The Knights (424 B.C.)
3. The Cluds (423 B.C.)
4. The Wasps (422 B.C.)
5. Peace(421 B.C.)
6. The Birds (414 B.C.)
7. Lysistrata (411 B.C.)
8. The Smophoriazusae (411 B.C.)
9. The Frogs (405 B.C.)
10. Plutus (388 B.C.)

Plato (428-347 B.C.)

1. Symposium
2. The Republic

Herodotus (450-428 B.C.)

Thucydides (430-399 B.C.)

Xenophon (430-354 B.C.)

Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.),a famous Greek orator

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

1. Rhetoric
2. Poetics

Menander (343?-291? B.C.)

1. Dyskolos

Roman Writers

Plautus (254-184 B.C.)

Terence (195-159 B.C.)

Varro (116-27 B.C.)

Cicero (106-43 B.C.), a Roman philosopher, orator and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C-65 A.D.)

1. Thyestes
2. Phaedra
3. Troas
4. Medea
5. Octavia
6. Hercules
7. Catullus (87-54 B.C.)

Virgil (70-19 B.C.)

1. Aeneid
2. Georgics

Horace (65-8 B.C.)

1. Satires
2. Odes
3. Ars Poetica

Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)

1. Metamorphoses
2. Art of Love

Quintilian (35-95 A.D.)

1. Institutes of Oratory

Quintilian (35-95 A.D.)

1. Institutes of Oratory

Dante Alighieri (1308-1321 A.D.), an Italian great poet.

1. The Divine Comedy

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