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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