Reading List By arthad 750 BCE Homer's Iliad? 750 BCE Homer's Odyssey? Period: 525 BCE to 456 BCE Aeschylus Period: 522 BCE to 446 BCE Pindar Period: 496 BCE to 405 BCE Sophocles Period: 485 BCE to 406 BCE Euripides Period: 485 BCE to 424 BCE Herodotus 470 BCE Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound Period: 460 BCE to 400 BCE Thucydides Period: 459 BCE to 380 BCE Lysias 458 BCE Aeschylus' Agamemnon 458 BCE Aeschylus' Eumenides Period: 450 BCE to 388 BCE Aristophanes 441 BCE Sophocles' Ajax 440 BCE Sophocles' Antigone 436 BCE Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Period: 436 BCE to 338 BCE Isocrates 431 BCE Euripides' Medea Period: 430 BCE to 354 BCE Xenophon 428 BCE Euripides' Hippolytus Period: 428 BCE to 348 BCE Plato 423 BCE Aristophanes' Clouds 411 BCE Aristophanes' Lysistrata 406 BCE Euripides' Bacchae After 406. 405 BCE Aristophanes' Frogs 401 BCE Sophocles' Oedipus Colonus Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE Demosthenes Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE Aristotle 380 BCE Isocrates' Panegyricus Period: 342 BCE to 290 BCE Menander 316 BCE Menander's Dyscolus Period: 300 BCE to 245 BCE Callimachus Period: 300 BCE to 260 BCE Theocritus Period: 300 BCE to 250 BCE Apollonius Period: 250 BCE to 184 BCE Plautus Period: 199 BCE to 120 BCE Polybius Period: 106 BCE to 43 BCE Cicero Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE Caesar Period: 98 BCE to 50 BCE Lucretius Period: 90 BCE to 50 BCE Catullus Period: 86 BCE to 35 BCE Sallust Period: 70 BCE to 19 BCE Vergil Period: 65 BCE to 8 BCE Horace 63 BCE Cicero's Catilinarians 62 BCE Cicero's Pro Archia Period: 59 BCE to 17 Livy 56 BCE Cicero's Pro Caelio 55 BCE Cicero's De oratore 3 52 BCE Caesar's DBG Period: 50 BCE to 19 BCE Tibullus Period: 50 BCE to 2 Propertius 44 BCE Cicero's DND Period: 43 BCE to 17 Ovid 42 BCE Sallust's BC 40 BCE Sallust's BJ 40 BCE Vergil's Eclogues 35 BCE Horace's Satires 1 35 BCE Horace's Epodes 33 BCE Vergil's Georgics 30 BCE Horace's Satires 2 28 BCE Propertius 1 26 BCE Tibullus 1 23 BCE Propertius 3 20 BCE Horace's Epistles 1 19 BCE Tibullus 2 16 BCE Propertius 4 14 BCE Horace's Epistles 2 Period: 4 BCE to 65 Seneca Period: 34 to 62 Persius Period: 35 to 100 Quintilian Period: 39 to 65 Lucan Period: 40 to 104 Martial Period: 45 to 120 Plutarch Period: 45 to 96 Statius Period: 55 to 120 Tacitus Period: 61 to 114 Pliny Period: 67 to 140 Juvenal Period: 70 to 140 Suetonius Period: 120 to 180 Lucian Period: 125 to 190 Apuleius 220 Longus' Daphnis and Chloe