ANCIENT TIMES
LITERATURE
♀ Enheduana, The Exaltation of Inana (2300 BCE).
Kheti, The Satire of the Trades (1950 BCE).
Sinuhe, Story of Sinuhe (1900 BCE).
Ani, Instructions (1500 BCE).
Thabion, The Baal Cycle (1350 BCE).
Homer, Illiad (720 BCE).
Hesiod, Works and Days (700 BCE).
Archilochus, Elegies (650 BCE).
♀ Sappho, Odes (570 BCE).
Aesop, Fables (500 BCE).
Aeschylus, The Persians (472 BCE).
Pindar, Odes (446 BCE).
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (425 BCE).
Euripides, The Trojan Women (415 BCE).
Aristophanes, The Frogs (405 BCE).
Menander, Old Cantankerous (316 BCE).
Qu Yuan, Encountering Sorrow (299 BCE).
Theocritus, Idylls (260 BCE).
Callimachus, Hymns (245 BCE).
Apollonius of Rhodes, The Argonautics (230 BCE).
Plautus, Amphitryon (214 BCE).
Terence, The Self-Tormentor (163 BCE).
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (55 BCE).
Catullus, Poems (54 BCE).
Tibullus, Elegies (25 BCE).
Ovid, Epistles of Heroines (20 BCE).
Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE).
Horace, Odes (17 BCE).
Propertius, Elegies (15 BCE).
Phaedrus, Fables (50).
Seneca, Medea (65).
Lucan, Pharsalia (65).
Petronius, Satyricon (66).
Martial, Epigrams (80).
Statius, Thebaid (90).
Chariton of Aphrodisias, Callirrhoe (100).
Juvenal, Satires (138).
Lucian of Samosata, The Dream (160).
Apuleius, The Metamorphoses (170).
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (200).
Xenophon of Ephesus, The Ephesiacs (200).
Shudraka, The Little Clay Cart (300).
Heliodorus of Emesa, The Aethiopics (300).
Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon (300).
Ausonius, Idylls (350).
Kalidasa, The Recognition of Shakuntala (400).
Tao Yuanming, Poems (427).
Nonnus of Panopolis, The Dionysiacs (450).
Musaeus the Grammarian, Hero and Leander (500).
Romanos the Melodist, Hymns (555).
APPENDIX
Amenhotep IV Akhenaton, Great Hymn to Aton (1340 BCE).
Anacreon, Odes (500 BCE).
Silius Italicus, The Punic War (101).
Quintus of Smyrna, The Fall of Troy (350).
Prudentius, The Battle of Spirits (400).
Dares of Phrygia, History of the Destruction of Troy.
Dictys of Crete, Chronicle of the Trojan War.
Vishakhadatta, The Minister’s Seal (550).
NON-FICTION
Confucius, Analects (479 BCE).
Herodotus, The Histories (430 BCE).
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (400 BCE).
Plato, Apology of Socrates (399 BCE).
Isocrates, Panegyricus (380 BCE).
Xenophon of Athens, Anabasis (370 BCE).
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (330 BCE).
Demosthenes, Speeches (322 BCE).
Mencius, Dialogues (289 BCE).
Cato the Elder, On Agriculture (160 BCE).
Polybius, The Histories (145 BCE).
Sima Qian, Historical Records (86 BCE).
Julius Caesar, On the Gallic Wars (49 BCE).
Cicero, Philippics (43 BCE).
Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline (42 BCE).
Varro, On Agriculture (37 BCE).
Diodorus of Sicily, Historical Library (30 BCE).
Cornelius Nepos, Lives of Eminent Commanders (25 BCE).
Vitruvius, On Architecture (25 BCE).
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities (8 BCE).
Livy, History of Rome (12).
Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus (14).
Strabo, Geography (23).
Velleius Paterculus, Roman History (30).
Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds and Sayings (30).
Curtius, Histories of Alexander the Great (42).
Pomponius Mela, Description of the World (43).
Luke, Acts of the Apostles (62).
Columella, On Rural Affairs (70).
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (77).
Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (78).
Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory (95).
Florus, Epitome of Roman History (110).
Plutarch, Parallel Lives (110).
Tacitus, Annals (117).
Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121).
Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander (130).
Ptolemy, Geography (150).
Apollodorus, Library (150).
Appian, The Civil Wars (160).
Galen, On the Natural Faculties (170).
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights (177).
Pausanias, Description of Greece (180).
Tertullian, Apology of the Christians (197).
Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists (200).
Aelian, Various History (220).
Cassius Dio, Roman History (229).
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana (238).
Herodian, Roman History (245).
Origen, Against Celsus (248).
Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (250).
Plotinus, The Enneads (270).
Porphyry, Introduction to Aristotle’s Categories (270).
Lactantius, The Divine Institutes (305).
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History (324).
Jerome, Chronicle (380).
Justin, Philippic History (390).
Augustine, Confessions (400).
Ammianus Marcellinus, Histories (400).
Augustan History (400).
Zosimus, New History (500).
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (524).
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica (550).
Procopius, History of the Wars (553).
Agathias, On the Reign of Justinian (580).
Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks (591).
