Minor Greeks

[AlfredtheGreat]

Hey i was wondering if the smart people in here could give a reading list of minor Greek writers. By that I mean important Greek writers excluding Homer, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristotle (these I have read or are in my to be read stack). Top 5 or top 10 please. Including the titles of the works.

[mortalterror]

1.Aeschylus- The Orestea, Prometheus Bound
2.Euripides- Medea, Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis
3.Aristophanes- Lysistrata, Clouds, Birds
4.Hesiod- Theogeny/Works and Days
5.Apollonius of Rhodes- Argonautika
6.Lyric Poets- especially Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Pindar
7.Herodotus- Histories
8.Thucydides- History of the Peloponesian War
9.Plutarch- Parallel Lives
10.Xenophon- Anabasis
11.Demosthenes- On the Crown
12.Theocritus- Eclogues
13.Callimachus- Aitia, Epigrams
14.Lucian- True Story
15.Isocrates- Panegyricus
16.Polybius- The Histories
17.Menander- The Grouch
18.Longinus- On the Sublime
19.Heliodorus- Aethiopica
20.Arrian- Life of Alexander the Great
21.Appian- Roman History
22.Epictetus- Discourses
23.Plotinus- Enneads
24.Galen- On the Natural Faculties, Exhortation to Study the Arts Especially Medicine
25.Euclid- Elements
26.Strabo- Geographical sketches
27.Theophrastus- On Moral Characters
28.Ptolemy- Almagest

[arrytus]

Just dive into the Loeb classical series and you can't go wrong.

I would put these two at the top:

Herodotus
Thucydides

Also:
Heraclitus
Sextus Empiricus
Aristophanes
Orpheus
Galen