Greek literature (post-classical)

second division of the Christian biblical canon

thumb|The fables of Babrius Babrius (, Bábrios; ), also known as Babrias () or Gabrias (), was the author of a collection of Greek fables, many of which are known today as Aesop's Fables.

ancient collection of short poems

Hyperbaton , in its original meaning, is a figure of speech in which a phrase is made discontinuous by the insertion of other words. In modern usage, the term is also used more generally for figures of speech that transpose sentences' natural word order, which is also called anastrophe.

thumb|Quadripartitum, 1622

right|thumb|Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and [[Jacques Daléchamps' Latin translation]]

collection of Greek poems

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

work by Pseudo-Longinus

treatise by Celsus criticising Christianity

treatise by Origen

4th-century work by St. Jerome

theological treatise by Origen

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.

Gnostic text written by Ptolemy

The Hermeneumata (; also known as the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana or Hermeneumata pseudo-Dositheana) are anonymous instructional manuals written in the third century CE to teach the Greek language to Latin-speaking people in the Roman Empire, and to teach Latin to Greek-speakers. The word Hermeneumata means "translations" or "interpretations".

2nd century Christian text