100 Essentials Collection

The 100 Essentials Collection is a large, ambitious, and deeply rewarding library for readers who want to move from essential familiarity to true immersion.

This selection offers an expanded encounter with Ancient Greek civilization: epic, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, history, biography, mythology, rhetoric, geography, medicine, satire, and early scientific thought.

The collection is ideal for readers who do not simply want to know the famous names, but to understand the wider intellectual world that produced them. Alongside Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Herodotus, and Thucydides, the reader encounters Pausanias’ journey through Greece, Diogenes Laertius’ lives of the philosophers, Plutarch’s biographies and moral essays, Arrian’s account of Alexander, Xenophon’s history, Demosthenes’ rhetoric, Aesop’s fables, Apollodorus’ mythology, Lucian’s satire, and the Presocratic thinkers who opened the first great questions of philosophy and nature.

The result is a broad yet coherent civilizational library: large enough to give real depth, carefully curated enough to remain focused, and essential enough to serve as a lasting foundation for serious reading, collecting, study, and heritage preservation.

All volumes belong to THE GREEKS collection by KAKTOS Publications, one of the largest collections of Ancient Greek literature in the world, featuring the Ancient Greek original text alongside a modern Greek translation, with strong emphasis on textual fidelity, editorial reliability, and continuity with the original sources.

Highlights of the Collection

• The complete Iliad and Odyssey by Homer
• Hesiod’s foundational poetic works
• Major works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes
• History through Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Arrian
• Plato’s Apology, Symposium, and Republic
• Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics
• Epicurus, Epictetus, and the major Presocratics
• Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Philosophers
• Plutarch’s selections from Lives and Moralia
• Pausanias’ Description of Greece
• Myths through Aesop, Apollodorus, Apollonius Rhodius
• The Hippocratic oath and the foundations of medical ethics
• Selected works of Demosthenes and Lucian.

Ideal For

• Readers seeking a serious personal classics library
• Greek heritage families and collectors
• Students and lifelong learners
• Libraries, schools, and cultural institutions
• Readers of philosophy, history, literature, politics, and mythology
• Gift buyers looking for a major cultural collection of lasting value

The 100 Essentials Collection is a generous gateway into Ancient Greece as a living intellectual world — a library of origins, memory, imagination, argument, beauty, and human inquiry.