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Greece
45,000 BC to 440 BC: Heracles : Argonauts : Theban cycle : Trojan cycle : Homer : Hesiod : 'Homeric' hymns : Sappho : Aesop : [map] : Aeschylus : Pindar : Herodotus
440 BC to 322 BC: Sophocles : Euripides : Thucydides : Aristophanes : Xenophon
427 BC to 322 BC: Plato and Aristotle
322 BC to present: #Plutarch
Rome
200,000 BC to 44 BC: Plautus : Ennius : Cato : Terence : Varro : Julius Caesar
106 BC to 43 BC: Cicero
44 BC to 17 AD: Nepos : Lucretius : Sallust : Catullus : Vitruvius : Virgil : Horace : Augustus : Livy : Priapea : Tibullus : Sulpicia : Seneca the Elder : Propertius : Ovid
19 BC to present: Velleius : Phaedrus : Valerius Maximus : Seneca the Younger : Petronius : Pliny the Elder : Silius Italicus : Frontinus : Persius : Lucan : Quintilian : Josephus : Martial : Valerius Flaccus : Statius : Rufus : Tacitus : Pliny the Younger : Suetonius : Juvenal : Marcus Aurelius : Apuleius : Gellius : Florus : Cassius Dio : Justin : Historia Augusta : Ammianus : Aurelius Victor : Eutropius : Augustine : Claudian
c350-283: Demetrius of Phaleron [Plutarch] [cf Anthony]
c340-322 BC: [sample court day]
"Hellenistic History and Culture" [ebook]
"Religion in Hellenistic Athens" [ebook]
no-date: Archytas the Pythagorean
361-292 BC: Dinarchus' Speeches [Greek] [English] [MIT]
342-292 BC: Menander's New Comedy
341-270 BC: Epicurus [maxims] [writings] [MIT] [DiogLaer] ditto [Jefferson] [fansite]
335-263 BC: Zeno the Stoic
no-date: Xenocrates
c325-239 BC: Bion the cynic
c320-230 BC: Timon the skeptic
c315-230 BC: Aratus the astronomer
c310-240 BC: Callimachus the poet
c300 BC: Anyte and Erinna (woman poets)
c300 BC: Euhemerus of Messene [quotes]
c300 BC: Euclid in Alexandria writes 'Elements of Geometry' [English] [Greek] [Java] [Javascript] [links]
c300-260 BC: Theocritus the poet
295 BC: Euclid writes Optics
no-date: Menippus the satirist; Aristarchus the astronomer; Asclepiades the epigrammatist; Erasistratus the physician
c290-22 BC: Cercidas the cynic
c287-212 BC: Archimedes of Syracuse [fansite] [links]
c285 BC: Greek translation of Old Testament in Alexandria (Septuagint) [links]
no-date: Herophilus the physician
276-194 BC: Eratosthenes the mathematician
271-213 BC: Aratus (statesman)
c270 BC: Ctesibius the inventor
265 BC: Arcesilaus of Pitane initiates 'skeptic' phase of Plato's Academy [occ1]
c250 BC: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautika [OMACL] [PGut] [MIT]
c240 BC: Antigonus the biographer
228 BC: Roman ambassadors in Athens and Corinth
no-date: Herodas the mime
c220 BC: Livius Andronicus translates Odyssey into Latin [fragments]
c200 BC: Fabius Pictor writes first history of Rome (lost), in Greek and addressed mainly to a Greek audience [occ230]
c200 BC: Corinna the poet
no-date: Strato the Aristotelian
c190-126 BC: Hipparchus the astronomer
c185-109 BC: Panaetius the stoic
c168 BC: Rome's new wealth leads to a Greek revival there [timeline]
155 BC: leaders of three Greek schools of philosophy (Carneades the Academic, Diogenes the Stoic, and Critolaus the Peripatetic) sent to Rome to appeal a fine [occ434]
c140 BC: Apollodorus of Athens 'Library and Epitome' [Greek] [English] [summary]
c135-50 BC: Posidonius the Stoic teaches Varro, Pompey, and Cicero [occ 435]
c130 BC: Polybius writes History of Rome (using Fabius Pictor) [occ452] [etext] [extracts] [crit]
This Polybius etext makes my browser crash, unless I use Google's 'cached' versions.
lost work on tactics [essay]
c100 BC: Meleager of Alexandria's Stephanos (Garland) 1st large critical anthology of poems (50 poets from as early as 650BC) [extracts]
60-30 BC: Diodorus Siculus 'Library' [English] [Greek] [extract] [MIT]
64 BC-24 AD: Strabo's 'Geography' [English] [Greek]
c30 BC- 45 AD: Philo of Alexandria
c0-63 AD: Paul of Tarsus
Parallel Lives: PGut, eClassics, Stoics, Bartleby abridged, kids
Life of Theseus: Greek, Perseus, eClassics, MIT [txt], [extracts] [cf Romulus]
Life of Lycurgus: eC, MIT [txt] [cf Numa]
Life of Solon (d560): Gk, Pers, Sask, eC, MIT [txt] [cf Poplicola]
Life of Aristides (d468): Gk, Pers, eC, MIT [txt]
Life of Themistocles (d459): Gk, Pers, MIT [txt]
Life of Cimon (d450): Gk, Pers, MIT [txt], [cf Lucullus]
Life of Pericles (d429): Gk, Pers, eC, MIT [txt]
Life of Nicias (d413): Gk, Pers, eC, MIT, [crit]
Life of Alcibiades (d404): Gk, Pers, [MIT] [extracts]
Life of Lysander (d395): Gk, Pers, MIT [txt] [cf Sylla]
Life of Pelopidas (d364): eC, MIT [txt] [cf Marcellus]
Life of Agesilaus (d360) eC, MIT [txt] [cf Pompey]
Life of Artaxerxes (d359): MIT
Life of Dion (Dionysius of Syracuse, d353): eC, MIT [cf Brutus]
Life of Timoleon (d336): eC, MIT
Life of Alexander (d323): eC, MIT [extract]
Life of Demosthenes (d322): MIT [txt] [cf Cicero]
Life of Phocion (d317): eC, MIT
Life of Demetrius (d283): MIT [cf Anthony]
Life of Pyrrhus (d272): eC, MIT
Life of Agis (d241): eC, MIT
Life of Aratus (d240): MIT
Life of Cleomenes (d219): MIT
Life of Philopoemen (d182): eC, MIT [cf Flamininus]
Life of Eumenes (d160): MIT
The Training of Children: Fordham
55-105 AD: Epictetus [MIT] [Bartleby]
c100 AD: New Testament composed in Greek [Greek] [translations]
c100-178 AD: Ptolemy [links]
115-180 AD: Lucian [prose] ditto [play] ditto
no-date: Arrian the historian
129-216 AD: Galen [MIT]
c150-215 AD: Clement
c155-235 AD: Dio Cassius the historian
c160 AD: Pausanias of Lydia 'Description of Greece' [English] [Greek] [Fordham 1] [Fordham 2] [extract] ditto ditto [MIT]
c185-285 AD: Origen of Alexandria
c225 AD: Diogenes Laertius the philosopher
c205-270 AD: Plotinus [links]
c250 AD: Longus' 'Daphnis and Chloe'
234-305: Porphyry [MIT]
451: death of Nestorius
529: Justinian finally closes Plato's original Academy [occ1]
c550: Simplicius the Aristotelian
c800: Aristotle's scientific works rediscovered by Arabs
c1250: Aquinas fuses Aristotle with Christianity
1616: Chapman translates Homer into English [Odyssey]
c1650: Platonism fad at Cambridge [info]
Greek language: guide
histories: Smith ebook, Tarbell ebook (art)
essays: AHB
occ = MC Howatson's Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
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