Greek literature

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1 Poetry 2 Prose 3 History

Poetry

• Alcman
• Alcaeus
• Anacreon
• Bacchylides
• Homer:
  • Iliad
  • Odyssey
• Ibycus
• Palladas
• Pindar
• Posidippus
• Sappho
• Simonides
• Stesichorus

See also: Greek Anthology

Drama

• Aeschylus:
  • The Oresteia:
    • Agamemnon
    • The Libation Bearers
    • The Eumenides
  • The Persians
  • Prometheus Bound
  • Seven Against Thebes
  • The Suppliants

• Aristophanes:
  • The Archanians
  • Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen")
  • The Birds
  • The Clouds
  • The Frogs
  • The Knights
  • Lysistrata
  • Peace
  • Plutus ("Wealth")
  • Thesmaphoriazousae ("The Festival Women")
  • The Wasps

• Euripides:
  • Medea
  • Suppliant Women
  • The Bacchae
  • Alcestis
  • Electra
  • Iphigenia at Aulis

• Menander:
  • Dyskolos

• Sophocles:
  • The three Theban plays:
    • Antigone
    • OedipusKing
    • Oedipus at Colonus
  • Ajax
  • Electra
  • Philoctetes
  • The Trachiniae

Prose

• Plato:
  • The Apology
  • The Republic
  • Phaedrus

• Xenophon:
  • Socrates' Defence
  • MemoirsSocrates
  • The Dinner-party
  • The Estate-manager

History

• Thucydides
• Herodotus

see also Early Helladic, Middle Helladic, Late Helladic, Hellenic civilization, Hellenistic civilization, literature.