Ancients

Listed by approximate publication date or author’s general period of activity.

  • The Dammapada (c. 3rd century BC)
  • The Art of War by Sun-Tzu (c. 5th century BC)
  • The Mahabarata (c. 3rd century BC – 3rd century AD)
  • The Baghavad Gita (c. 1st millenia BC)
  • Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (c. 3rd century BC)
  • Plautus (c. 254 BC – 184 BC)
  • Conics by Apollonius of Perga (c. 240 BC – 190 BC)
  • Mathematical Works of Archimedes (c. 287 BC – 212 BC)
  • Ennius (c. 239 BC – c. 169 BC)
  • Terence (c. 195/185 BC – 159 BC)
  • Histories by Polybius (200-118 BC)
  • Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC)
  • Commentaries on the Gallic War
  • Civil War
  • Alexandrian War
  • African War
  • Spanish War
  • Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)
  • On the Republic
  • On the Laws
  • On the Ends of Goods and Evils
  • On Friendship
  • On Duties
  • Varro (116BC – 27 BC)
  • De Rerum Natura by Lucretius (c. 99 BC – 55 BC)
  • Catallus (c. 84 BC – 54 BC)
  • Statius (c. 45 AD – 96 AD)
  • Geography by Strabo (c. 64/63 BC – 24 AD)
  • Odes by Horace (65 BC – 8 BC)
  • History of Rome by Livy (64/59 BC – AD 12/17)
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid (43 BC – 17/18 AD)
  • Elegies by Propertius (50/45 BC – 15 BC)
  • The Library by Apollodorus (c. 1st century AD)
  • Satyricon by Gaius Petronius (c. 1st century AD)
  • Pliny the Elder (23/24 – 79 AD)
  • Phaedra by Seneca (1st century AD)
  • Juvenal’s Satires (1st century AD)
  • Pliny the Younger (51-113 AD)
  • Epictetus (50 – 135 AD)
  • Satires by Lucian (125 – 180+ AD)
  • Roman History Lucius Cassius Dio (155 – 235 AD)
  • Tacitus (56 – 120 AD)
  • Germania
  • Annals
  • Histories
  • Roman History by Appian (c. 95 – 165 AD)
  • Description of Greece by Pausanius (c. 110 – 180 AD)
  • The Almagest by Ptolemy (c. AD 100-170)
  • Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus (c. 60-120 AD)
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 161/180)
  • The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius (c. 1st century AD)
  • On the Sublime by Longinus (c. 1st century AD)
  • Imagines by Philostratus (c. 170 AD – 247/250 AD)
  • The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian (c. 2nd century AD)
  • Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (2nd century AD)
  • The Golden Ass by Apulieus (c. 2nd century AD)

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