The Original Classics

European literature from before the fall of Rome + the Bible. (Introductory Post.)

1. Various: Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (years uncertain: some scholars date oldest sections to c. 1400 BCE, others to 6th or 7th century BCE; generally agreed that newest sections date  to c. 2nd or 3rd century BCE)*
   1. Post 1
   2. Post 2
2. Homer: The Iliad (c. 8th century BCE)
3. Homer: The Odyssey (c. 8th century BCE)*
4. Hesiod: Works and Days (c. 8th-7th century BCE)
5. Hesiod: Theogony (c. 8th-7th century BCE)
6. Anonymous: Homeric Hymns (c. 7th century BCE)
7. Sappho: Poems (c. 7th century BCE)
8. Aeschylus (Aiskhulos): Agamemnon (458 BCE)
9. Aeschylus (Aiskhulos): The Libation Bearers (458 BCE)
10. Aeschylus (Aiskhulos): The Eumenides (458 BCE)
11. Sophocles (Sophoklēs): Antigone (c. 442 BCE)*
12. Sophocles (Sophoklēs): Oedipus Rex [Oedipus the King] (c. 429 BCE)*
13. Sophocles (Sophoklēs): Oedipus at Colonus (c. 406 BCE)
14. Euripides: Alcestis [Alkēstis] (438 BCE)
15. Euripides: Medea [Mēdeia] (431 BCE)*
16. Euripides: Hippolytus (428 BCE)
17. Euripides: Electra [Ēlektra] (c. 420 BCE)
18. Euripides: Trojan Women [Troades] (415 BCE)
19. Euripides: The Bacchae (405 BCE)
20. Carson, Anne, translator: An Oresteia (5th century BCE)
21. Aesop: Fables (c. 5th century BCE)
    
22. Aristophanes: The Clouds (423 BCE)
23. Aristophanes: The Birds (414 BCE)
24. Aristophanes: Lysistrata [Lysistrate] (411 BCE)
25. Aristophanes: The Frogs (405 BCE)
26. Apollonius Rhodius (Apollṓnios Rhódios): Argonautica [Argonautika] (3rd century BCE)
27. Virgil: The Aeneid [Aeneis] (29-19 BCE)
28. Ovid: Metamorphoses ( 8)*
29. Various: New Testament (1st century)*
30. Lucian: True History (True Story) (2nd century)
31. Apuleius, Lucius: The Golden Ass (2nd century)

* Indicates a reread.

Last updated 20.01.2012