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500–400 BC

← Back to All Books 500–400 BC The fifth century BC represents the golden age of Greek literature and thought. These works capture the intellectual and artistic peak of classical Greece: the birth of tragedy and comedy, the rise of historical writing, and the foundations of Western political and medical thought. Read More No books match this filter.

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1959 (Grene & Lattimore eds.)

The Complete Greek Tragedies

David Grene (ed.)

1950 (Browning trans.)

Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

1922–1926 (Smyth trans., Loeb)

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

1928 (Bowra trans.)

Pythian Odes

Pindar

1824 (Laurent trans.)

The Odes of Pindar in English Prose

Pindar

1956 (Storr trans., Loeb)

Sophocles

Sophocles

1912–1913 (Way trans., Loeb)

Euripides

Euripides

1959 (Hobbes trans., ed. Grene)

The Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

1934

Motse: The Neglected Rival of Confucius

Mei Yi-pao

1929 (Mei Yi-pao trans.)

The Ethical and Political Works of Motse

Motse (Mo Ti)

1939 (Jones trans., Loeb)

Hippocrates

Hippocrates

1939 (Adams trans.)

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

Hippocrates

1924–1938 (Rogers trans., Loeb)

Aristophanes

Aristophanes

1908 (Hickie trans., Bohn's)

The Comedies of Aristophanes

Aristophanes

1946

Plays of the Greek Dramatists

Various

1790

Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione Libri Octo

Xenophon

1914–1917 (Miller trans., Loeb)

Cyropaedia

Xenophon

Loeb Classical Library

Xenophon

Xenophon