Who were the Classical Attic Authors?

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Who were the Classical Attic Authors? Were there three, or a thousand? Could you read all their works in a single lifetime, and where would you begin? In this video I show you the major authors of ancient Athens, and the kinds of works they wrote.

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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

00:00 Intro
2:02 Playwrights, Historian-Philosophers, Orators
3:51 What is Classical Attic?
6:05 Classical Attic Authors Spreadsheet
15:55 Conclusion
16:48 Birds in my Backyard
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Who were the Classical Attic Authors? Were there three, or a thousand? Could you read all their works in a single lifetime, and where would you begin? In this video I show you the major authors of ancient Athens, and the kinds of works they wrote.


🦂 Support my work on Patreon:

📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:

🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus"

☕ Support my work with PayPal:

And if you like, do consider joining this channel:



🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:

🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)

🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:

🌍 polýMATHY website:

🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:

🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:

👕 Merch:


📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:

Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart

00:00 Intro
2:02 Playwrights, Historian-Philosophers, Orators
3:51 What is Classical Attic?
6:05 Classical Attic Authors Spreadsheet
15:55 Conclusion
16:48 Birds in my Backyard

polyMATHY_Luke
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Euge! I don't think I've ever seen a more helpful chart. Luke, please make this spreadsheet as comprehensive as possible!

ValeriusDacius
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That spreadsheet is really a work of art. Great stuff, Luke! I would love to see a video on the metrical prose of the Attic authors!

Joe-untl
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So glad you gave a shout-out to Isocrates. He was my favorite Ancient Greek author (translated into English), as well as the analysis of him in books by Takis Poulakos.

kaijusportsclub
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Παιδιά θυμάστε που μαθαίναμε αρχαία ελληνικά στο σχολείο, και τα κατάργησαν σαν "νεκρή γλώσσα"...ευχαριστούμε Ελλάδα 🫶 ευτυχώς υπάρχουν άνθρωποι σα τον φίλο μας εδώ.

κουκουρουκ
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Wow! Just WOW! You've rekindled my desire to finish reading Xenophon's 'On Horsemanship', which floored me with its wisdom and humane approach to horse mastery. I keep assuring my philistine phriends that the ancient authors are intelligent, interesting, funny, lewd and downright entertaining - yet still they (the phriends) continue to laugh at me for being interested in something so - well - ancient.

It's nice to come here and feel normal. Great job with the spreadsheet, sir. :)

betrisherninox
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8:37 - I did this a few years ago (but in translation), and it was an awesome experience! I read every work of extant Greek literature from Homer to the Attic orators in chronological order. I would be reading Thucydides and then pause at the start of each new year in the history to read whatever extant plays were performed at the next year’s Lenaea and Dionysia, and then I’d read any extant speeches written by the orators/logographers. It really helped me feel like I was getting the fullest experience possible at understanding that time period. It’s a very rare thing in ancient history to have multiple works extant from so many literary genres, all coming from the same place and time, describing the same people and places. Take Alcibiades for example; Thucydides and Xenophon narrate his career in a mostly matter of fact way, but when you also read what Plato, Aristophanes, and Andocides say about him, you get a much fuller idea of the man and his reputation. Also, I don’t have a spreadsheet, but I have many folders of notes also recording all these authors and their works.

NovaSeven
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English is my second language. I listened to this video while driving. I was very confused as to why he was talking about "playdough" until I re-watched the video from the start xD So that's how you pronounce Plato in English

utkuy
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Great spreadsheet. I find it very helpful.

RodrigoXV
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My buddies and I have been doing exactly this for 2 years now and have just begun Xenophon! Highly, HIGHLY recommend reading everything in chronological order, it brings out so much and makes you feel the rhythm of life as it unfolded in late 5th c. Athens. And pro-tip, if one hasn't yet, I recommend reading Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and a small taste of the Pre-Socratics before diving into Luke's schedule for all the best context.

BrazilianPride
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wow thanks for the spreadsheet. I was planning to read the classical attic authors in chronological order, perfect!

firstaidsack
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Also, I highly recommend getting _The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics_ by Debra Nails. It is so helpful in making the connections between all the people from this period that many may miss upon first read. Many of the entries present a random person who may be mentioned in a legal speech written by Isaeus, and well it turns out he’s the grandson of that general mentioned by Thucydides and mocked by Aristophanes, and he was a son-in-law of that guy mentioned by Plato. It is the perfect reference companion for this reading campaign!

NovaSeven
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0:45 I just cant get rid of these last pikometres of height to turn this extremely flat cylinder into a perfect circle. So close, yet so far. 😑

PC_Simo
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I'd like to suggest you three wiki pages that could aid you in compiling your spreadsheet. Here are the titles: "Loeb Classical Library"; "Κλασσικὴ Βιβλιοθήκη «Λέβ»" (this is a list of mine providing the Greek titles of the books); and "Classici greci conservati".

RiccardoRadici
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I think the clouds can be thought of as an ancient form of a diss track in rap.

nikole
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I would love to listen to a video about Attic orators.

jamesgilbert
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Great spreadsheet, thanks! I am a bit confused by the Plato column though as it seems to date works before he was even born i.e. Parmenides in 450 κτα.

josefk
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I actually have a book somewhere of the Complete Writings of Plato, which includes letters, which I never see referenced anywhere. From what I recall, it's not too exciting, I remember him complaining to someone about a certain amount of money he sent or needed, and about his reputation on his position on certain political issues...Do we have good reason to doubt the authenticity of some or all of these letters? Are there many letters from this time that have been preserved, or just his?

HandofOmega
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Would love to see a video on the Orators. Have you finished your audiobook of Xenophon of Ephesus yet? Would love to pick that up.

ZackSkrip
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So excited!. . . But strangely, I'm getting a 404 error when I click on the spreadsheet link.

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