| Aeschylus | an Athenian tragedian, author of the trilogy Oresteia |
| Apollonios of Rhodes | a writer whose works include the Argonautica |
| Argonautica, the | a work by Apollonios of Rhodes |
| Athenaeus | [not yet ready] |
| Babel | a play by Dimitrios Hatzi-Aslan, written in 1836 |
| The Basil Plant | a play by Andonios Matesis |
| Cavafy, Constantine | (?-1933) a poet |
| Deipnosophists | a work by the writer Athenaeus |
| Doctors at Dinner | = Deipnosophists |
| Drosinis, Yeoryios | (1859-1951) a poet |
| Eleni | a novel by Nicholas Gage |
| Elytis, Odysseus | a poet from Lesvos who won a Nobel prize |
| Estia | a literary journal |
| Euripides | an Athenian tragedian |
| Gage, Nicholas | a writer whose works include Eleni |
| Gatsos | a poet |
| Georgilas, Emmanuel | a poet |
| Hatzi-Aslan, Dimitrios | a playwright whose works include Babel (written in 1836). He was a Phanariot who came to independent Greece and changed his name to Vizandios (= of Byzantium) |
| Hedipathetica | the Latin title of the translation by the Roman poet Ennius of the Greek poet Archstratus' book of recipes Hedypathia |
| Hedypathia | a book of recipes written by the poet Archestratus. The name means "voluptuousness." |
| Heracleia | an epic by Peisandros on the labours of Herakles |
| Hesiod | an ancient poet, the author of Works and Days |
| historical novel | the dominant form of prose literature until the 1880s |
| Homer | an ancient poet, the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey |
| Hristopoulos, Athnasios | a poet who spent much of his life in Jassy, in the Danubian principality of Moldavia. His Bacchic and Erotic poems were influenced by French neo-classicism |
| Hymn to Liberty | a work by Dionisios Solomos, published in 1825 |
| Iliad, The | [not yet ready] |
| Kariotakis, Kostas | (?-1928) |
| Karkavitsas, Andreas | (1864-1922) a novelist |
| Kazantazakis, Nikos | (1883-1957) a novelist |
| Kristallis, Kostas | (1868-1894) a poet |
| The Light that Burns | a work (of mixed prose and verse) by Kostas Varnalis |
| Matesis, Andonios | a playwright whose works include The Basil Plant |
| Odyssey, The | [not yet ready] |
| Oresteia | a trilogy by Aeschylus |
| Palamas, Kostis | (1859-1943) a poet |
| Papadiamandis, Alexandros | (1851-1911) a novelist |
| The Path of Freedom | a play by Alexis Solomos |
| Peisandros | an epic poet who wrote the Heracleia, an epic on the labours of Herakles |
| Pezas, Mikis | a novelist whose works include The Price of Liberty |
| The Plague of Rhodes | a poem by Emmanuel Georgilas |
| political satire | [not yet ready] |
| Politis, Kosmas | a novelist |
| Pope Joan | a novel by Emmanouil Roidis in which the Romantic historical novel is lampooned |
| The Price of Liberty | a novel by Mikis Pezas |
| Rangavis, Alexandros Rizos | a poet and later novelist who first introduced the historical novel to Greece |
| Ritsos, Yiannis | a poet |
| Roidis, Emmanouil | a novelist whose works include Pope Joan |
| Romantic poetry | [not yet ready] |
| Seferis | a poet |
| Sikelianos, Angelos | (1884-1951) a novelist |
| Slaves Besieged | a collection of poems by Kostas Varnalis, published in 1927 |
| Solomos, Alexis | a playwright whose works include The Path of Freedom |
| Solomos, Dionysios | (1797-1857) the national poet whose works include Hymn to Liberty (published in 1825) |
| Sophocles | an Athenian tragedian |
| Soutsos, Alexandros | brother of Panayiotis Soutsos. He first introduced political satire to Greece |
| Soutsos, Panayiotis | brother of Alexandros Soutsos. He first introduced Romantic poetry and the epistolary novel to Greece |
| Suppers Descriptions | 11 books on food, written by the poet Techemachidas |
| The True Apology of Socrates | a prose work by Kostas Varnalis, published in 1933 |
| Valaoritis, Aristotelis | (1824-79) a poet from Lefkas |
| Varnalis, Kostas | (1884-1974) a novelist and poet. His works include The Light that Burns (1922),the poems of Slaves Besieged (1927), and The True Apology of Socrates (1933) (a prose work) |
| Vassilikos, Vassily | a novelist whose works include Z |
| Velestinlis, Rigas | (1757-98) translator of the first short stories to be written in Greek, a translation from Retif de le Bretonne |
| The Visionary | a poem by Angelos Sikelianos, published in 1909 |
| Vizandios | the name which Dimitrios Hatzi-Aslan used when he came to independent Greece |
| Viziinos, Yeoryios | (1849-1896) a writer of short stories |
| Works and Days | a work by Hesiod |
| Xefloudas, Stelios | a writer |
| Yiannopoulos, Alkiviadis | a writer |
| Z | a book by Vasilly Vassilikos about the murder of Grigoris Lambrakis |