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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.2100– 1200	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.