Here's challenge …

… Informal Inquiries: Twenty-four pre-Christian era books.



I doubt if can name all of them, and I am sure I haven't read all of them. I've read Herodotus, a good deal of Plato and Aristotle, Homer of course, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Seneca's letters (though Seneca lived into the Christian era), the Upanishads and the Tao te Ching (if the latter two count), Thucydides (I think), Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Others that come to mind — Plutarch, Tacitus, and Marcus Aurelius, for instance — are not pre-Christian.