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	The Ancient World and Dark Ages 2000 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. Click linked titles and authors for more information and Editor Eric's commentaries.
	Date BCE	Title		Author	Country	Type
	c.2000	Gilgamesh		Anonymous	Babylon	Poetry
	c.1990	The Shipwrecked Sailor		Anonymous	Egypt	Story
	c.1875	The Tale of Sinuhe		Anonymous	Egypt	Story
		The Eloquent Peasant		Anonymous	Egypt	Story
	c.1200- 100	The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)		Various	Israel	Prose and Poetry
	c.750	Iliad		Homer	Greece	Poetry
		The Odyssey		Homer	Greece	Poetry
	c.700	Theogony		Hesiod	Greece	Poetry
		Works and Days		Hesiod	Greece	Poetry
	c.610- 580	Sappho's Poems		Sappho	Greece	Poetry
	c.600- 500	Fables		Aesop	Greece	Stories
	c.500- 440	Epinician Odes		Pindar	Greece	Poetry
	458	The Oresteia		Aeschylus	Greece	Drama series
	c.450- 425	Prometheus Bound		Aeschylus	Greece	Drama
	442-441	Antigone		Sophocles	Greece	Drama
	431	Medea		Euripides	Greece	Drama
	430	Oedipus Rex		Sophocles	Greece	Drama
	423	The Clouds		Aristophanes	Greece	Drama
	c.420- 410	Electra		Sophocles	Greece	Drama
	418	Electra		Euripides	Greece	Drama
	414	The Birds		Aristophanes	Greece	Drama
	411	Lysistrata		Aristophanes	Greece	Drama
	406	The Bacchae		Euripides	Greece	Drama
	c.400BCE -400CE	Mahabharata		Anonymous	India	Poetry
	300-200	The Voyage of the Argonauts		Appollonius of Rhodes	Greece	Poetry series
		Idylls		Theocritus	Greece	Poetry
		Ramayana		Valmiki	India	Poetry
	c.270	Causes		Callimachus	Greece	Poetry
	c.200	Menaechmi (The Twin Brothers)		Plautus	Rome	Drama
	c.50	On the Nature of Things		Lucretius	Rome	Poetry
	c.41-37	Eclogues		Virgil	Rome	Poetry
	c.35-30	Satires		Horace	Rome	Poetry
	c.29-16	Elegies		Sextus Propertius	Rome	Poetry
	c.29-19	Aeneid		Virgil	Rome	Poetry
	19	Odes		Horace	Rome	Poetry
	c.10	Art of Love		Ovid	Rome	Poetry
	Date CE	Title		Author	Country	Type
	c.8	Metamorphoses		Ovid	Rome	Poetry
	c.50	Media		Lucius Annaeus Seneca	Rome	Drama
		Hercules Furens		Lucius Annaeus Seneca	Rome	Drama
	c.60-70	Satyricon		Arbiter Petronius	Rome	Prose and Poetry
	c.65-100	The New Testament		Various	Israel	Prose and Poetry
	c.100	Parallel Lives		Plutarch	Greece	Biography
	c.100- 127	Satires		Juvenal	Rome	Poetry series
	c.150	The Golden Ass		Lucius Apuleius	Rome	Prose narrative
	c.300	The Vision of Vasavadatta		Bhasa	India	Drama
	c.400	The Recognition of Sakuntala		Kalidasa	India	Drama
	610-632	Qur'an		Mohammed	Arabia	Prose
	c.700	Beowulf		Anonymous	England	Poetry
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The Ancient World and Dark Ages 2000 B.C.E. to 700 C.E.

The Ancient World and Dark Ages
2000 B.C.E. to 700 C.E.