Homer1 Hesiod Archilochus Alcman	700 B.C.	Note: Other authors, not named on this chart, are represented in Loeb Classical Library collections such as Greek Lyric; Minor Latin Poets; Papyri; Minor Attic Orators; Greek Mathematical Works; and The Apostolic Fathers
Sappho, Alcaeus Stesichorus Ibycus, Anacreon, Theognis	600
Simonides, Heraclitus Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus Herodotus, Hippocrates, Sophocles Antiphon, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Euripides	500
Andocides Xenophon, Plato, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus Aeschines, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Aeneas Tacticus Theophrastus	400
Euclid, Menander Theocritus, Manetho, Lycophron Aristarchus, Herodas, Callimachus, Aratus Apollonius Rhodius	300	Livius Andronicus Naevius
Corinna Polybius	200	Ennius, Plautus Caecilius, Cato Accius, Pacuvius, Terence Lucilius
Bion, Moschus Parthenius Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus	100	Lucretius, Catullus, Cicero Caesar, Varro, Cornelius Nepos, Sallust Virgil, Tibullus, Vitruvius, Horace, Propertius
Strabo, Demetrius Philo Onasander, "Longinus"2 Plutarch, Josephus, Dio Chrysostom	0	Augustus, Seneca the Elder, Livy, Ovid Celsus, Manilius, Velleius Paterculus, Phaedrus Curtius, Seneca, Petronius, Lucan, Persius Columella, Pliny, Frontinus, Quintilian, Martial
"Apollodorus"2, Epictetus, Babrius Ptolemy, Arrian, Achilles Tatius, Lucian Aristides, Pausanius, Appian, Oppian, Galen Marcus Aurelius, Clement	A.D. 100	Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Silius, Tacitus Pliny the Younger, Juvenal, Suetonius Florus, Fronto Apuleius Gellius
Aelian, Athenaeus, Alciphron, Sextus Empiricus Philostratus, Dio Cassius, Herodian Plotinus, Diogenes Laertius, Longus	200	Tertullian Minucius Felix
Eusebius Pappus, Tryphiodorus Julian, Libanius, St. Basil Quintus Smyrnaeus	300	Ausonius
Eunapius Nonnos, Colluthus	400	St. Jerome, Ammianus Marcellinus Prudentius, Claudian, St. Augustine
Musaeus Procopius	500	Sidonius Boethius
	600
	700	Bede

1. Dates of Homer, Hesiod, and Archilochus, like those of some other authors, are quite uncertain.
2. The Loeb editions of On the Sublime and The Library are attributed, respectively, to Longinus and Apollodorus, but both works now are believed to have been written by authors unknown.