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Florilegium

A Greek Anthology

Here is a selection of popular passages from the Perseus Greek texts. Use the "configure display" tool, above, and set your default text preference to "original language" for the quickest access to the Greek originals.

Note that this is not the Greek Anthology, a selection of short poems from the Hellenistic period.

Authors:

 

Euripides

 

Herodotus

 

Homer

Albani Homer Portrait bust supposed to be Homer

 

Lysias

 

Plato

Plato's Academy The remains of the gymnasium at Plato's Academy
  • Apology of Socrates: his speech in his own defense
  • Phaedo, the death of Socrates Socrates Portrait of Socrates
  • Ion, a dialogue with a singer
  • Republic 514a-518b (start of book 7), the image of the cave

 

Sophocles

Lateran Sophocles Statue of Sophocles

 

Thucydides

 

Xenophon

 

New Testament