Ancient Texts

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Tale of Sinuhe – Unknown – c. 1800 BCE

Egyptian Book of the Dead – Various – c. 1550 BCE

Vedas – Various – c. 1500–1000 BCE

Phoenician History – Sanchoniatho – c. 1200 BCE?

Enūma Eliš – Unknown (Babylonian) – c. 1100 BCE

Torah – Moses (trad.) – c. 6th–5th century BCE

Book of Job – Unknown – c. 6th century BCE

Gathas – Zarathushtra – c. 1000–600 BCE

The Iliad – Homer – c. 750 BCE

The Odyssey – Homer – c. 725 BCE

The Cypria – Homer – c. 725 BCE

Works and Days – Hesiod – c. 700 BCE

Homeric Hymns – Homeric Poets – c. 7th–5th century BCE

Poetry – Sappho – c. 630–570 BCE

[Cosmology] – Pherecydes of Syros – c. 600 BCE

Tao Te Ching – Laozi – c. 600 BCE

The Art of War – Sun Tzu – c. 5th century BCE

Fragments – Heraclitus – c. 500 BCE

The Persians / Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus – c. 525–455 BCE

Book of Jonah – Unknown – c. 5th century BCE

The Bacchae – Euripides – c. 405 BCE

Medea – Euripides – c. 431 BCE

Oedipus Trilogy – Sophocles – c. 429 BCE

History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides – c. 431 BCE

Histories – Herodotus – c. 430 BCE

Anabasis – Xenophon – c. 370 BCE

Metaphysics – Aristotle – c. 350 BCE

The Symposium – Plato – c. 385 BCE

Frogs – Aristophanes – c. 405 BCE

Lives of the Philosophers – Diogenes Laërtius – c. 3rd century BCE

Geography – Eratosthenes – c. 276 BCE

Library of Greek Mythology – Apollodorus – c. 2nd century BCE

Bibliotheca Historica – Diodorus Siculus – c. 60 BCE

Sibylline Oracles – Various – c. 2nd century BCE

Indica – Megasthenes – c. 3rd century BCE

The Argonautica – Apollonius Rhodius – c. 3rd century BCE

On the Nature of the Gods – Cicero – c. 45 BCE

Georgics – Virgil – c. 29 BCE

The Aeneid – Virgil – c. 19 BCE

The Odes – Horace – c. 23 BCE

The Rise of Rome – Livy – c. 25 BCE

Metamorphoses – Ovid – 8 CE

The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius – c. 121 CE

Jewish War / Antiquities – Josephus – c. 75–90 CE

Letters of Paul – Paul – c. 50–65 CE

The Gospel of John – Unknown – c. 90 CE

The Book of Revelation – John of Patmos – c. 95 CE

The Roman Histories – Tacitus – c. 100 CE

The Satyricon – Petronius – c. 100 CE

Epigrams – Martial – c. 86–103 CE

The Golden Ass – Apuleius – c. 160 CE

Refutation of All Heresies – Hippolytus of Rome – c. 230 CE

The Dionysiaca – Nonnus of Panopolis – c. 5th century CE

Mathêsis – Firmicus Maternus – c. 334 CE

Ancient Christian Writers – Firmicus Maternus – c. 334 CE

Against the Pagans – Arnobius – c. 300 CE

Against Heresies – Irenaeus – c. 180 CE

Introduction to Astrology – Paul of Alexandria – c. 378 CE

The Handbook of Platonism – Alcinous – c. 150 CE

Achilleid – Statius – c. 96 CE

Daphnis and Chloe – Longus – c. 2nd century CE

Oneirocritica – Artemidorus – c. 2nd century CE

The Orphic Hymns – Attributed to Orpheus – c. 3rd century BCE or later

Corpus Hermeticum – Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus – c. 2nd–3rd century CE

Gospel of Thomas – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Gospel of Mary Magdalene – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Gospel of Judas – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Apocryphon of John – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

Apocryphon of James – Unknown – c. 2nd century CE

The Gnostic Bible – Various – 2nd–4th century CE

Kore Kosmou (Virgin of the World) – Hermes Trismegistus – c. 3rd century CE

Plotinus’ Enneads – Plotinus – c. 250 CE

Maximus of Tyre’s Orations – Maximus of Tyre – c. 2nd century CE

Greek Magical Papyri – Various – 1st–4th century CE

Mithras Liturgy – Unknown – c. 2nd–3rd century CE

Ishtar’s Descent – Unknown – Mesopotamia – date disputed (likely earlier, c. 1000 BCE but compiled later)

Description of Greece – Pausanias – c. 2nd century CE

Roman History – Cassius Dio – c. 3rd century CE

Natural History – Pliny the Elder – c. 77 CE

Selected Letters & Writings – Pliny the Younger – c. 100 CE

Selected Letters & Tragedies – Seneca the Younger – c. 65 CE

Writings – Seneca – c. 1st century CE

Cosmology and Commentaries – Proclus – c. 5th century CE

Elements – Euclid – c. 300 BCE

Mathematical Works – Archimedes – c. 287 BCE

Erotic Epigrams (Greek Anthology) – Various – c. 2nd century BCE

Propertius’ Elegies – Propertius – c. 1st century BCE

The Nature of the Universe – Lucretius – c. 55 BCE

Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian (trans.) – Thomas Taylor – 19th century CE

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