Ancient Greece Reading List
I read these works as part of a Great
Books reading program. More
about my reading lists
Auxiliary Reading:
- Durant, Will. The Life of Greece
- Kitto. The Greeks
Literature:
- Homer. Iliad, Odyssey
- Hesiod. Works and Days
- Sappho. Poems
- Aesop. Fables
- Aeschylus. Complete Plays
- Sophocles. Complete Plays
- Euripides. Complete Plays
- Aristophanes. Complete Plays
- Herodotus. History
- Thucydides. Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon. Anabasis
- Plato. Apology, Crito,
Phaedo, Symposium,
Euthyphro, Meno,
Republic, Protagoras,
Gorgias, Ion,
Parmenides, Phaedrus,
Theaetetus, Sophist
- Aristotle. Ethics, Politics,
Poetics
- Theophrastus. Characters
- Epicurus. Fragments
- Theocritus. Idylls
- Longus. Daphnis and Chloe
Note: Authors who wrote in Greek during the Roman period
(e.g., Plutarch, Marcus Aurelius) are on my
Roman reading list
