The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.

This carefully selected collection contains:

• The Odyssey
• The Works and Days
• Theogony
• The Complete Poems of Sappho
• Medea
• Antigone
• Agamemnon
• The Choephori
• Eumenides
• The Odes of Anacreon