GREECE AND MACEDON

Hesiod (fl. c. 700 b.c.e.)

From Theogony                                              

From Works and Days                                                        

Homer (fl. 8th or 9th century b.c.e.)

From The Iliad, Book 1.1-52                                            

From The Iliad, Book 18.202-214                         

From The Iliad, Book 18.462-616            

From The Odyssey, Book 11                     

Aeschylus (525/4-456 b.c.e.)

Selections                                                    

Sophocles (496-406 b.c.e.)

Selections                                                           

Thucydides (c. 495-429 b.c.e.)

From The Peloponnesian Wars: Pericles’ Funeral Oration      

Aristophanes (c. 445-c. 380 b.c.e.)

Selections                                                                                    

Parabasis from Clouds                                                   

Plato (427-347 b.c.e.)

From The Timæus                                                           

Xenophon (c. 450-354 b.c.e.)

From Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)                             

Aristotle (384-322 b.c.e.)

Learning and “Metaphysics”                                     

Friendship and Love                                                 

Aesthetics                          

Ethics and Eudemonia                       

Political Philosophy                                     

Alexander the Great (356-323 b.c.e.)

Speech at Opis, In Ancient Greek

Map showing the Greek world during the Greco-Persian Wars (ca. 500–479 BC).

Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily during the Peloponnesian Wars. Source.

The Empire of Alexander