| “Acharnians” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 425 BCE |
| “Aeneid” | Epic poem, Vergil, Latin/Roman, 19 BCE |
| “Aesop’s Fables” | Fables, Aesop, Greek, c. 550 BCE |
| “Agamemnon” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, 458 BCE |
| “Agamemnon” | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 55 CE |
| “Ajax” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, c. 444 BCE |
| “Alcestis” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 438 BCE |
| “Amores” | Elegiac poem, Ovid, Latin/Roman, c. 16 BCE |
| “Andromache” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 426 BCE |
| “Antigone” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, c. 442 BCE |
| “Apocolocyntosis” | Satire, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 55 CE |
| “Argonautica” | Epic poem, Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek, c. 246 BCE |
| “Ars Amatoria” | Lyric poem, Ovid, Latin/Roman, 1 CE |
| “Ars Poetica” (“The Art of Poetry”) | Lyric poem, Horace, Latin/Roman, c. 18 BCE |
| “Bacchae” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 410 BCE |
| “Beowulf” | Epic poem, anonymous, Old English, c. 8th Century CE |
| “Bible” | Religious text, various anonymous authors, Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek, 6th Century BCE – 2nd Century BCE |
| “Birds” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 414 BCE |
| “Bucolics” (“Eclogues”) | Pastoral poem, Vergil, Latin/Roman, 37 BCE |
| “Carmen Saeculare” (“Song of the Ages”) | Lyric poem, Horace, Latin/Roman, 17 BCE |
| “Clouds” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 423 BCE |
| “Cyclops” | Tragicomedy (satyr play), Euripides, Greek, c. 408 BCE |
| “Dyskolos” (“The Grouch”) | Comedy, Menander, Greek, c. 316 BCE |
| “Ecclesiazusae” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 392 BCE |
| “Electra” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, c. 410 BCE |
| “Electra” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 418 BCE |
| “Gilgamesh” | Epic poem, anonymous, Sumerian / Mesopotamian / Akkadian, 20th – 10th Century BCE |
| “Epistulae VI.16 and VI.20” | Letters, Pliny the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 107 CE |
| “Epistulae X.96” | Letters, Pliny the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 111 CE |
| “Eumenides” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, 458 BCE |
| “Frogs” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 405 BCE |
| “Georgics” | Didactic poem, Vergil, Latin/Roman, 29 BCE |
| “Hecuba” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 424 BCE |
| “Helen” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 412 BCE |
| “Heracleidae” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 430 BCE |
| “Heracles” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 416 BCE |
| “Hercules Furens” (“The Mad Hercules”) | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 54 CE |
| “Heroides” | Epistolary poem, Ovid, Latin/Roman, c. 5 BCE |
| “Hippolytus” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 428 BCE |
| “Hymn to Aphrodite” | Lyric poem, Sappho, Greek, c. 570 BCE |
| “Iphigenia at Aulis” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 407 BCE |
| “Iphigenia in Tauris” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 413 BCE |
| “Iliad” | Epic poem, Homer, Greek, c. 750 BCE |
| “Ion” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 413 BCE |
| “Libation Bearers” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, 458 BCE |
| “Knights” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 424 BCE |
| “Lysistrata” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 411 BCE |
| “Metamorphoses” | Epic poem, Ovid, Latin/Roman, 8 CE |
| “Medea” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 431 BCE |
| “Medea” | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 50 CE |
| “Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire” (“Catullus 8”) | Lyric poem, Catullus, Latin/Roman, c. 60 BCE |
| “Nunc est bibendum” (“Odes, Book 1, Poem 37”) | Lyric poem, Horace, Latin/Roman, c. 30 BCE |
| “Odi et amo” (“Catullus 85”) | Lyric poem, Catullus, Latin/Roman, c. 60 BCE |
| “Odyssey” | Epic poem, Homer, Greek, c. 725 BCE |
| “Oedipus” | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 55 CE |
| “Oedipus at Colonus” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, 406 BCE |
| “Oedipus the King” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, c. 429 BCE |
| “Olympic Ode 1” | Lyric poem, Pindar, Greek, 476 BCE |
| “Oresteia Trilogy” (“Agamemnon”, “The Libation Bearers”, “The Eumenides”) | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, 458 BCE |
| “Orestes” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 408 BCE |
| “Passer, deliciae meae puellae” (“Catullus 2”) | Lyric poem, Catullus, Latin/Roman, c. 60 BCE |
| “Peace” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 421 BCE |
| “Persians” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, 472 BCE |
| “Phaedra” | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 50 CE |
| “Pharsalia” (“De Bello Civili”) | Epic poem, Lucan, Latin/Roman, 65 CE |
| “Philoctetes” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, 409 BCE |
| “Phoenician Women” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, c. 410 BCE |
| “Phoenissae” (“The Phoenician Women”) | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 65 CE |
| “Plutus” (“Wealth”) | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, c. 388 BCE |
| “Prometheus Bound” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, c. 415 BCE |
| “Pythian Ode 1” | Lyric poem, Pindar, Greek, 470 BCE |
| “Satire III” | Satire, Juvenal, Latin/Roman, c. 110 CE |
| “Satire VI” | Satire, Juvenal, Latin/Roman, c. 115 CE |
| “Satire X” | Satire, Juvenal, Latin/Roman, c. 120 CE |
| “Seven Against Thebes” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, 467 BCE |
| “Suppliants” | Tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek, c. 469 BCE |
| “Suppliants” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 423 BCE |
| “Theogony” | Didactic poem, Hesiod, Greek, c. 700 BCE |
| “Thesmophoriazusae” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 411 BCE |
| “Thyestes” | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 62 CE |
| “Trachiniae” | Tragedy, Sophocles, Greek, c. 440 BCE |
| “Troades” (“The Trojan Women”) | Tragedy, Seneca the Younger, Latin/Roman, c. 54 CE |
| “Trojan Women” | Tragedy, Euripides, Greek, 415 BCE |
| “Tu ne quaesieris” (“Odes, Book 1, Poem 11”) | Lyric poem, Horace, Latin/Roman, c. 23 BCE |
| “Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus” (“Catullus 5”) | Lyric poem, Catullus, Latin/Roman, c. 65 BCE |
| “Wasps” | Comedy, Aristophanes, Greek, 422 BCE |
| “Works and Days” | Didactic poem, Hesiod, Greek, c. 700 BCE |
