Ancient Greek poems

The Theogony () is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed . It is written in the epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1,022 lines. It is one of the most important sources for the understanding of early Greek cosmology.

didactic poem in 828 lines of dactylic hexameter by Hesiod in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in agriculture

set of spiritual and philosophical texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from the 3rd to the 6th century CE

literary work

Anacreontea () is the title given to a collection of some sixty Greek poems on the topics of wine, beauty, erotic love, and the worship of Dionysus. The poems themselves appear to have been composed over a long period of time, dating to between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD, and is attributed pseudepigraphically to Anacreon.

literary work

Greek papyrus scroll with epigrams of Posidippus, written in the late 3rd or early 2nd century BCE