Catalog
Browse the corpus by author, domain, period, or school.
By author
By period
- Archaic 800–480 BCE The Archaic period runs from the adoption of the Greek alphabet to the Persian Wars.
- Classical 480–323 BCE From the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander, the Classical period is the golden age of Athenian democracy and pan-Hellenic culture.
- Hellenistic 323–31 BCE After Alexander's death, Greek culture spreads across the eastern Mediterranean and Near East while new royal courts patronise scholarship.
- Late Antique 330–600 CE Late antiquity bridges the Roman Empire's Christianisation and the early Byzantine world.
- Roman 31 BCE–330 CE Under Roman rule, Greek remains the language of education and elite culture across the eastern Empire.
By domain
- Comedy Old, Middle, and New Comedy—satirical drama from Aristophanes to Menander, mocking politics, philosophy, and everyday life.
- Drama Tragedy and dramatic poetry performed in the theatre—Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and the tragic tradition they established.
- Epic Long narrative verse in the epic tradition—Homeric and Hesiodic poetry and the learned epic of the Hellenistic age.
- Geography Descriptions of lands, peoples, and journeys—periploi, ethnography, and the geographic books of historians.
- Grammar Technical writing on language—grammar, orthography, etymology, and the scholarly tools of Alexandrian philology.
- History Historical narrative and inquiry—from Herodotus and Thucydides through Hellenistic and Roman historians to Byzantine chronicles.
- Mathematics Mathematical treatises in the Greek tradition—geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and mechanics from Euclid to Ptolemy.
- Medicine Medical and anatomical writing in the Hippocratic and Galenic traditions—clinical cases, theory, and pharmacology.
- Oratory Forensic, deliberative, and epideictic speeches—Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates, and the art of persuasion in the assembly and courts.
- Philosophy Philosophical treatises, dialogues, and commentaries—from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools.
- Poetry Lyric, elegiac, and hymnic verse outside epic and drama—personal song, choral poetry, and imperial panegyric.
- Scholia Marginal and standalone commentaries on canonical authors—scholia preserving ancient exegesis and textual variants.
By school
- Aristotelian Followers of Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition—logic, ethics, natural philosophy, and commentary.
- Epicurean Epicurus and his followers—atomist physics, hedonist ethics, and the ideal of tranquil pleasure.
- Neoplatonist Late antique Platonists from Plotinus to Proclus—hierarchical metaphysics, commentary, and religious philosophy.
- Platonist Plato and the Platonic tradition—dialogue, Forms, and the Academy's heirs before Neoplatonism.
- Stoic The Stoic school from Zeno to Roman Stoics—logic, physics, and ethics unified in a rational cosmos.