Timeline of Authors

Approximately When They Flourished

Note: Other authors, not named on this chart, are represented in Loeb Classical Library collections such as Greek Lyric; Minor Latin Poets; Select Papyri; Minor Attic Orators; Greek Mathematical Works; and The Apostolic Fathers.

Writers in Greek	Years Active (Period)	Writers in Latin
Homer,1 Hesiod, Archilochus Alcman	700 B.C. (Archaic)
Sappho, Alcaeus Stesichorus Ibycus, Anacreon, Theognis	600 B.C.
Simonides, Heraclitus Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus Herodotus, Hippocrates, Sophocles Antiphon, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Euripides	500 B.C. (Classical Greek)
Andocides Xenophon, Plato, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus Aeschines, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Aeneas Tacticus Theophrastus	400 B.C.
Euclid, Menander Theocritus, Manetho, Lycophron Aristarchus, Herodas, Callimachus, Aratus Apollonius Rhodius	300 B.C.	Livius Andronicus Naevius
Corinna Polybius	200 B.C. (Hellenistic)	Ennius, Plautus Caecilius, Cato Accius, Pacuvius, Terence Lucilius
Bion, Moschus Parthenius Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus	100 B.C. (Classical Latin)	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, Pausanias, 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	A.D. 200 (Late Imperial)	Tertullian Minucius Felix
Eusebius Pappus, Tryphiodorus Julian, Libanius, St. Basil Quintus Smyrnaeus	A.D. 300	Ausonius
Eunapius Nonnos, Colluthus	A.D. 400 (Late Antiquity)	St. Jerome, Ammianus Marcellinus Prudentius, Claudian, St. Augustine
Musaeus Procopius	A.D. 500	Sidonius Boethius
	A.D. 600
	A.D. 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.

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