Greek literature

Contents

1 Poetry 1.1 Greek drama 1.1.1 Tragedy 1.1.2 Comedy 2 Prose 3 History 4 Modern Greek Literature 5 See Also

Poetry

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

See also: Greek Anthology

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