Classical

At the most basic level, Greco-Roman literature can be defined as literature written in the Greek and later Latin languages from the time of the Archaic Age in the eight century B.C. (Homer and Hesiod) to the fall of Rome in A.D. 476.

Gregory E. Lamb, “Literary Survey of the Second Temple Period (Including an Introduction to Greco-Roman Literature)” (unpublished survey, 2016), 176.

Classical

Aeschylus 525–456 BCE

Aesop 620–564 BCE

Aratus 315–240 BCE

Aristotle 384–322 BCE

Callimachus 310–240 BCE

Chariton 50–125 CE

Cicero 106–43 BCE

Democritus 460–370 BCE

Dio Chrysostom 40–115 CE

Diodorus Siculus 90–30 BCE

Diogenes Laertius 200–300 CE

Dioscorides 40–90 CE

Epimenides 700–500 BCE

Euripides 480–406 BCE

Hesiod 700 BCE

Hierocles 100–150 CE

Homer 750 BCE

Horace 65–8 BCE

Iamblichus 245–325 CE

Isocrates 436–338 BCE

Josephus 37–100 CE

Livy 59 BCE – 17 CE

Lucian 125–180 CE

Menander 342–290 BCE

Philo 20 BCE – 50 CE

Plato 428–348 BCE

Pliny the Elder 23–79 CE

Pliny the Younger 61–113 CE

Plutarch 46–120 CE

Polybius 200–118 BCE

Pseudo Apollodorus 100 CE

Pseudo Philo 60–100 CE

Seneca 4 BCE – 65 CE

Suetonius 69–122 CE

Tacitus 56–120 CE

Virgil 70–19 BCE

Anonymous Texts

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