Beginner reading list
I've been diving into Ancient Greece and Rome for the first time and wanted to share my reading list in the order that I'm reading it in (with rough date spans for both the author and what the work covers). For those here with a lot more Classics knowledge than me, I'd love feedback on this list - any more sources I should add, any thoughts on changing the order, and any modern sources I should layer in for added context? I've heard good things about Adrian Goldsworthy's books, but open to all recs.
Ancient Greece
Homer (850 - 750 BC) - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Various - Homeric Hymns
Aeschylus (525 - 456 BC) - The Oresteia
Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Sophocles (497 - 406 BC) - The Oedipus Plays
Sophocles - Electra and other Plays
Euripides (480 - 406 BC) - Medea and Other Plays
Euripides - The Bacchae and Other Plays
Herodotus (484 - 425 BC) - The Histories (650 - 479 BC)
Thucydides (460 - 400 BC) - History of the Peloponnesian War (431 - 411 BC)
Xenophon (430 - 355 BC) - A History of My Times (Hellenica) (411 - 362 BC)
Xenophon - The Persian Expedition (Anabasis) (401 BC)
Plato (428 - 347 BC) - The Republic (380 BC)
Plutarch (50 - 120 AD) - The Rise and Fall of Athens (508 - 322 BC)
Plutarch - On Sparta (500 - 371 BC)
Curtius Rufus (0 - 100 AD) - The History of Alexander (356 - 323 BC)
Arrian (86 - 160 AD) - The Campaigns of Alexander (356 - 323 BC)
Plutarch - The Age of Alexander (350 - 272 BC)
Ancient Rome
Virgil (70 - 19 BC) - The Aeneid (19 BC)
Livy (59 BC - 17 AD) - The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (757 - 386 BC)
Plutarch - The Rise of Rome (700 - 400 BC)
Livy - The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy (386 - 293 BC)
Polybius (200 - 118 BC) - The Rise of the Roman Empire (264 - 146 BC)
Livy - The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal (218 - 202 BC)
Plutarch - The Fall of the Roman Republic (100 - 50 BC)
Plutarch - Rome in Crisis (134 - 31 BC)
Appian (95 - 165 AD) - The Civil Wars (133 - 44 BC)
Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BC) - The Conquest of Gaul (58 - 50 BC)
Julius Caesar - The Civil Wars (49 - 47 BC)
Cicero (106 - 43 BC) - Selected Works (43 BC)
Cassius Dio (165 - 235 AD) - The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD)
Tacitus (55 - 120 AD) - The Annals of Imperial Rome (14 - 68 AD)
Tacitus - The Histories (69 - 70 AD)
Tacitus - The Agricola and The Germania
Suetonius (69 - 122 AD) - The Twelve Caesars (30 BC - 96 AD)
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) - Letters from a Stoic
Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD) - Meditations