Greek literature

Poetry

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

Greek drama

= Tragedy =

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

• Sophocles:
• *The three Theban plays:
• **Antigone
• **Oedipus the King
• **Oedipus at Colonus
• *Ajax
• *Electra
• *Philoctetes
• *The Trachiniae

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

  = Comedy =

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

• Menander:
• *Dyskolos

  Prose

• Plato:
• *The Apology
• *The Republic
• *Phaedrus
• *Timaeus and Critias

• Xenophon:
• *Anabasis
• *Socrates' Defence
• *Memoirs of Socrates
• *The Dinner-party
• *The Estate-manager
  

  History

• Thucydides
• *History of the Peloponnesian War
• Herodotus
• *The Histories of Herodotus

  Modern Greek Literature

• Cavafy
• Odysseas_Elytis
• Kostas_Karyotakis
• Karkavitsas
• Kavadias
• Kazantzakis
• Alexandros_Papadiamantis
• Seferis

  See Also

• Greek comedy
• literature
• Individual eras: Early Helladic, Middle Helladic, Late Helladic, Hellenic civilization, Hellenistic civilization
• Loeb Classical Library
• Greek Authors on the Web