The Ancient Greece Reading Path

According to Groblé

The scene that started it all. Epic poetry, philosophy, tragedy, comedy, history, all invented here. Homer to Aristotle, then carried west through Rome to become the literature everything since has been responding to.

37 works · 6,622 pages, in reading order

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  1. 1The IliadHomer · c. 750 BCEHard · 704 pages
  2. 2The OdysseyHomer · c. 725 BCEHard · 541 pages
  3. 3Theogony/Works and DaysHesiod · c. 700 BCEHard · 79 pages
  4. 4Sappho's PoemsSappho · c. 600 BCEHard · 44 pages
  5. 5Aesop’s FablesAesop · c. 560 BCEBreezy · 262 pages
  6. 6The PersiansAeschylus · 472 BCEGrueling · 57 pages
  7. 7The Seven Against ThebesAeschylus · 467 BCEGrueling · 58 pages
  8. 8The SuppliantsAeschylus · 463 BCEGrueling · 58 pages
  9. 9Prometheus BoundAeschylus · c. 460 BCEGrueling · 64 pages
  10. 10The OresteiaAeschylus · 458 BCEGrueling · 286 pages
  11. 11Women of TrachisSophocles · c. 450 BCEHard · 68 pages
  12. 12AntigoneSophocles · 441 BCEHard · 75 pages
  13. 13AjaxSophocles · c. 440 BCEHard · 79 pages
  14. 14AlcestisEuripides · 438 BCEHard · 64 pages
  15. 15MedeaEuripides · 431 BCEHard · 96 pages
  16. 16The HistoriesHerodotus · c. 430 BCEHard · 880 pages
  17. 17Oedipus RexSophocles · c. 429 BCEHard · 79 pages
  18. 18The AcharniansAristophanes · 425 BCEHard · 75 pages
  19. 19The CloudsAristophanes · 423 BCEHard · 89 pages
  20. 20WaspsAristophanes · 422 BCEHard · 91 pages
  21. 21PeaceAristophanes · 421 BCEHard · 80 pages
  22. 22The BirdsAristophanes · 414 BCEHard · 104 pages
  23. 23LysistrataAristophanes · 411 BCEHard · 79 pages
  24. 24History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides · c. 411 BCEGrueling · 648 pages
  25. 25ElectraSophocles · c. 410 BCEHard · 84 pages
  26. 26PhiloctetesSophocles · 409 BCEHard · 94 pages
  27. 27The FrogsAristophanes · 405 BCEHard · 114 pages
  28. 28The BacchaeEuripides · 405 BCEHard · 86 pages
  29. 29Oedipus at ColonusSophocles · 401 BCEHard · 132 pages
  30. 30ApologyPlato · c. 399 BCEHard · 39 pages
  31. 31PhaedoPlato · c. 385 BCEHard · 94 pages
  32. 32The SymposiumPlato · c. 385 BCEHard · 109 pages
  33. 33The RepublicPlato · c. 375 BCEHard · 300 pages
  34. 34PhaedrusPlato · c. 370 BCEHard · 176 pages
  35. 35PoeticsAristotle · c. 335 BCEHard · 38 pages
  36. 36The Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · c. 330 BCEHard · 213 pages
  37. 37Plutarch's LivesPlutarch · c. 110Moderate · 483 pages