Xenophon's Anabasis Description of parts of eastern Asia Minor in 401 B.C.
Xenophon's Cyropaedia "Historical" romance set in the Achaemenid Empire and involving Armenia. Unlike the Anabasis, this is not real history. Xenophon creates an historical ambience for a discussion of his ideal government.
Fragments of Ctesias' Persica and Indica. Ctesias was a physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II from 404 to 398/97 B.C. Hopefully he was more proficient at medicine than history. Use with caution, and/or enjoy as entertainment. Source at Livius.org.
The Republic, Book 10, 613-621, by Plato (ca. 429-347 B.C.) contains the story of Er, son of Armenius, believed to be an echo of the Armenian story of Ara.
Enter "Plato" in search box in Mardiros Ananikian's Armenian Mythology.
The Armenian legend of Ara is available in The Primary History of Armenia.
The Argonautica, by Apollonius of Rhodes. Some version of this story was known to Homer already in the 8th century B.C., making it one of the oldest known Greek myths. Apollonius' later account is the most extensive. Jason and the most celebrated heroes of Greece visit eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus. At Sacred-texts.
Polybius' Histories, at LacusCurtius.
The Library of History, by Diodorus Siculus. At LacusCurtius.
Strabo's Geography, Books 11-17. Invaluable geographical, historical, and anthropological information about the area of our interest.
From the wrtings of Plutarch, all at LacusCurtius.
Plutarch's Parallel Lives, [complete], especially, the Lives of:
Artaxerxes, reigned 405-359 B.C.Plutarch's Sayings of the Romans.
Eumenes, d. 316 B.C.
Demetrius, d. 213 B.C.
Sulla, d. 78 B.C.
Lucullus, d. ca. 57 B.C.
Crassus, d. ca. 55 B.C.
Pompey, d. 48 B.C.
Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey.
Caesar, d. 44 B.C.
Brutus, d. 43 B.C.
Cicero, d. 43 B.C.
Antony, d. 30 B.C.
Syrian Wars, by Appian, from the History of Rome.
Mithridatic Wars, by Appian, from the History of Rome. Both at Livius.
Strategems, by Polyaenus. At Attalus.
The Syrian Goddess, by Lucian of Samosata, at Sacred-texts.com.
The Way to Write History, by Lucian of Samosata, at Sacred-texts.com.
Ptolemy's Geography Book Four (Africa); Book Five (Asia Minor, Caucasus); Book Six (Assyria, Media, Persia, Central Asia); Book Seven (India, Sinae, Taprobana).
Cassius Dio's Roman History. Books 36 and 37 describe the situation in Asia Minor at the time of Mithridates VI (reigned 120-63 B.C.); book 62, Corbulo's conquest of Armenia; book 68, Trajan's campaigns in Armenia and Parthia; book 71, Marcus Aurelius' war against Vologaesus in Armenia. At LacusCurtius.
Herodian's History of the Roman Empire, covers the period 180-238 A.D. At Tertullian.org
Athenaeus, the Banquet of the Learned/Sophists at Dinner, anecdotes and historical information on numerous topics. At Attalus.
Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Flavius Philostratus, contains curious information about the Caucasus and Armenian writing [Book II] before the alphabet of Mashtots'. At Sacred-texts.
Download A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, by J. B. Bury in .pdf format.
The Hellenistic Age, by J. B. Bury and others (323-276 B.C.), is available in various formats from Internet Archive.
Armenia's Economic Prosperity and the Foundation of Cities in the Hellenistic Period by H. A. Manandian.
The Orontids of Armenia by C. Toumanoff.
Trade and Trade Centers in Armenia in the Roman-Parthian and the Byzantine-Sasanian Period by H. A. Manandian.
Entries on Greece at Encyclopaedia Iranica, multiple authors.
Download Toponymy [of Armenia in remote and classical antiquity], in searchable .pdf format. Tables of the provinces, cities, towns, villages, mountains, plains, rivers, lakes, and seas in areas of Armenian settlement in Asia Minor including map and literary references, prepared by Nina G. Garsoian as an accompaniment (Appendix V, pp. 137-246) to her 1983 translation of N. Adontz's study Armenia in the Period of Justinian (1908). Tables provide (where available) Classical Armenian, Greek, Latin, and modern designations. Included is Garsoian's updated Bibliography (pp. 247-303) for this important work of Adontz on the lords (naxarars) of Ancient Armenia. An invaluable tool for the study of eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus in remote and classical antiquity.
E. H. Bunbury's two volume History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans (1883), is now available as .pdf downloads from our website: Volume I [32.5 MB]; Volume II [28 MB]. This important work contains a great deal more than information on geography, and makes an invaluable accompaniment to the historical sources.
Ancient Greek Medicine and numerous other topics, at Karolinska Institute Library.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art Greece 8000-2000 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art Greece 2000-1000 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art Greece 1000 B.C. - 1 A.D.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (N.Y.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art Greece 1 - 500 A.D.
Greece, at Livius.org
Ancient Greece Portal, at Wikipedia