CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS Part 1 (LITERATURE)

Vedas, anonymous prose and verse, c. 3000-c. 500 BC

Epic of Gilgamesh, anonymous poem cycle, early 2nd millennium BC

The Bible, anonymous verse and prose, c. 900 BC onwards

Upanishads, anonymous prose and verse, c. 800-c. 500 BC

The Iliad, poem by Homer, c. 750 BC

The Odyssey, poem by Homer, c. 720 BC

Fragment 1 ["Address to Aphrodite"], poem by Sappho, 7th century BC

Fragment 31 ["Declaration of Love for a Young Girl"], poem by Sappho, 7th century BC

The City of God, prose by St Augustine, 5th century

Olympian One, poem by Pindar, c. 476 BC(?)

The Persians, play by Aeschylus, 472 BC

The Seven Against Thebes, play by Aeschylus, 467 BC

Prometheus Bound, play by Aeschylus, c. 466-59 BC

The Suppliant Maidens, play by Aeschylus, c. 463 BC

Pythian Odes Four and Five, poems by Pindar, c. 462 BC(?)

The Oresteia, play by Aeschylus, 458 BC


Ajax, play by Sophocles, before 441 BC(?)

Antigone, play by Sophocles, c. 441 BC(?)

Medea, play by Euripides, 431 BC

Women of Trachis, play by Sophocles, c. 430-20 BC

Oedipus the King, play by Sophocles, after 430 BC

Hippolytus, play by Euripides, 428 BC

The Clouds, play by Aristophanes, 423 BC

Electra, play by Euripides, c. 422-16 BC

Ion, play by Euripides, c. 421-13 BC

Electra, play by Sophocles, c. 418-10 BC(?)

The Trojan Women, play by Euripides, 415 BC

The Birds, play by Aristophanes, 414 BC

Lysistrata, play by Aristophanes, 411 BC

Philoctetes, play by Sophocles, 409 BC

Orestes, play by Euripides, 408 BC

The Frogs, play by Aristophanes, 405 BC

Oedipus at Colonus, play by Sophocles, 401 BC

Phaedrus, prose by Plato, 5th/4th century BC

The Republic, prose by Plato, 5th/4th century BC

The Symposium, prose by Plato, 4th century BC

On the Crown, prose by Demosthenes, 330 BC

Characters, prose by Theophrastus, c. 319 BC

The Grouch, play by Menander, 316 BC

Aetia, poem by Callimachus, 3rd century BC

Hecale, poem by Callimachus, 3rd century BC

Idyll I, poem by Theocritus, c. 270s BC

Idyll IV, poem by Theocritus, c. 270s BC

Idyll VII, poem by Theocritus, c. 270s BC

Amphitryo, play by Plautus, 2nd century BC

The Brothers Menaechmus, play by Plautus, 2nd century BC

The Pot of Gold, play by Plautus, 2nd century BC

The Eunuch, play by Terence, 161 BC

Phormio, play by Terence, 161 BC

The Brothers, play by Terence, 160 BC

The Aeneid, poem by Virgil, 1st century BC

Epigrams, poems by Martial, 1st century BC

Georgics, poem by Virgil, 1st century BC

Odes Book I, Poem 5, poem by Horace, 1st century BC

Odes Book IV, Poem 7, poem by Horace, 1st century BC

Poem 85, poem by Catullus, 1st century BC

Three Poems: 2, 63, and 76, poems by Catullus, 1st century BC

In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus, prose by Cicero, 56 BC

On the Commonwealth, prose by Cicero, c. 51 BC

Oedipus, play by Seneca, c. 48 BC

Thyestes, play by Seneca, c. 48 BC

On Old Age, prose by Cicero, 44 BC

Loves, poem by Ovid, late 1st century BC

The Poetic Art, poem by Horace, late 1st century BC

Mahabharata, epic poem attributed to Vyasa, 1st millennium BC/AD

The Art of Love, poem by Ovid, 1st century BC/1st century

AD Metamorphoses, poem by Ovid, 1st century BC/1st century

AD Kalevala, anonymous poem, origins date to early 1st century

AD The Little Clay Cart, anonymous play, 1st century AD(?)

On the Sublime, anonymous poem, late 1st century

AD Ramayana, poem attributed to Valmiki, 1st/2nd century

Lives of Lysander and Sulla, prose by Plutarch, 1st/2nd century

AD Satire 10, poem by Juvenal, 1st/2nd century

AD Annals, prose by Tacitus, early 2nd century

AD Meditations, prose by Aurelius, c. 170

Cupid and Psyche, story by Apuleius, c. 180

Daphnis and Chloe, poem by Longus, 2nd/3rd century

Confessions, Book I, prose by St. Augustine, 4th century

The Mosella, poem by Ausonius, c. 371

The Cloud Messenger, poem by Kalidasa, 5th century

Sakuntala, poem by Kalidasa, 5th century

The Rape of Proserpine, poem by Claudian, c. 400

The Consolation of Philosophy, prose by Boethius, early 6th century

"Hard Is the Road to Shu," poem by Li Bai, c. 744

"Invitation to Wine," poem by Li Bai, 752

The Thousand and One Nights, anonymous stories, 9th century

Journey to the West, anonymous novel, 11/12th century

Ruba’iyat, poems by Omar Khayyam, 11/12th century

The Song of Roland, poem, c. 1100

Erec and Enide, poem by Chretien de Troyes, written c. 1170

Lancelot, poem by Chretien de Troyes, written c. 1170

The Conference of the Birds, poem by Farid al-Din Attar, c. 1177

The Tale of the Campaign of Igor, anonymous poem, c. 1185

Guigamor, poem by Marie de France, late 12th century

The Saga of King Olaf the Saint, prose by Snorri Sturluson, 12th/13th century

Aucassin and Nicolette (Anon), romance, 13th century

Egils saga, anonymous prose, 13th century

Njals saga, anonymous prose, 13th century

The Poetic Edda, anonymous poems, 13th century

The Prose Edda, prose by Snorri Sturluson, 13th century

Nibelungenlied, poem, c. 1200

Parzival, poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach, written c. 1200-10

Willehalm, unfinished poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach, written c. 1210-12

Titurel, poetic fragment by Wolfram von Eschenbach, written c. 1212-20

The Romance of the Rose (de Lorris and Meung), poem, c. 1225-70

Rose Garden, prose and verse by Sa’di, 1258

The New Life, poems by Dante Alighieri, 1295

Water Margin, anonymous novel, 14th century

The Divine Comedy, poem by Dante Alighieri, 1321

The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day of The Decameron, story by Giovanni Boccaccio, c. 1350

"Sonnet 90," poem by Petrarch, before 1356

The Book of the City of Ladies, prose by Christine de Pizan, 1405

"Ballade des dames du temps jadis," poem by Frangois Villon, 1489(written c. 1460?) "

Ballade des pendus," poem by Frangois Villon, 1489

The Ship of Fools, poem by Sebastian Brant, 1494

The Praise of Folly, prose by Desiderius Erasmus, 1511

The Prince, prose by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513

Orlando Furioso, poem by Ludovico Ariosto, 1515

Auto da Barca do Inferno, Auto da Barca do Purgatorio, Auto da

Barca da Gloria, plays by Gil Vicente, 1517, 1518, 1519

The Colloquies, prose by Desiderius Erasmus, 1518

Farsa de Ines Pereira, play by Gil Vicente, 1523

The Mandrake, play by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1524

"Ein feste Burg," hymn by Martin Luther, 1531 (written 1528?)

Gargantua and Pantagruel, novels by Frangois Rabelais, 1532-34(?)

La cortigiana, play by Pietro Aretino, 1534

The Wandering Scholar in Paradise, play by Hans Sachs, written 1550

"Ode to Michel de l’Hospital," poem by Pierre de Ronsard, 1552

Lazarillo de Tormes, anonymous novel, 1554

"Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage," poem by Joachim Du Bellay, 1558

"Hymn to Autumn," poem by Pierre de Ronsard, 1563

"Apology for Raymond Sebond," prose by Michel de Montaigne, 1570

The Lusiads, poem by Luis de CamSes, 1572

Aminta, play by Torquato Tasso, 1573

"Quand vous serez bien vieille . . .," poem by Pierre de Ronsard,1578 (written 1572)

Jerusalem Delivered, poem by Torquato Tasso, 1580

"On the Power of the Imagination," prose by Michel de Montaigne, 1588

"On Vanity," prose by Michel de Montaigne, 1588

The Peony Pavilion, novel by Tang Xianzu, 1598

Peribanez and the Comendador of Ocana, play by Lope de Vega Carpio, 1608

Don Quixote, novel by Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Fuenteovejuna, play by Lope de Vega Carpio, 1619

Life Is a Dream, play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 1623

The Trickster of Seville, play by Tirso de Molina, 1625

Justice Without Revenge, play by Lope de Vega Carpio, 1632

The Great Stage of the World, play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, c. 1635

The Theatrical Illusion, play by Pierre Corneille, 1635-36

The Cid, play by Pierre Corneille, 1636-37

Voyages to the Moon and the Sun, novels by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657-62

The Conceited Young Ladies, play by Moliere, 1659

Tartuffe, play by Moliere, 1664

Don Juan, play by Moliere, 1665

Maxims, prose by La Rouchefoucauld, 1665-78

The Misanthrope, play by Moliere, 1666

The Miser, play by Moliere, 1668

Berenice, play by Jean Racine, 1670

Bajazet, play by Jean Racine, 1672

The Hypochondriac, play by Moliere, 1673

The Art of Poetry, poem by Nicolas Boileau, 1674

Phaedra, play by Jean Racine, 1677

Fables, stories by Jean de La Fontaine, 1688-89

Athalie, play by Jean Racine, 1691

The Game of Love and Chance, play by Marivaux, 1730

Manon Lescaut, novel by Abbe Prevost, 1733

The False Confessions, play by Marivaux, 1737

A Matter of Dispute, play by Marivaux, 1744

Zadig, novella by Voltaire, 1748

The Dream of the Red Chamber, novel by Cao Xueqin, mid-18th century

The Comic Theatre, play by Carlo Goldoni, 1750

The Mistress of the Inn, play by Carlo Goldoni, 1753

Poem on the Disaster of Lisbon, poem by Voltaire, 1756

The Test of Virtue, play by Denis Diderot, 1757

Candide, novella by Voltaire, 1759

Emile, fiction by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

The Social Contract, prose by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

The Philosophical Dictionary, prose by Voltaire, 1764

Minna von Barnhelm, play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1767

Goetz of Berlichingen, play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1773

The Sufferings of Young Werther, novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774

The Tutor, play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, 1774

The Barber of Seville, play by Beaumarchais, 1775

Nathan the Wise, play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1779

The Confessions, prose by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1781

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, novel by Choderlos de Laclos, 1782

The Minor, play by Denis Fonvizin, 1782

The Reveries of a Solitary, prose by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782

Saul, play by Vittorio Alfieri, 1782

Ode to Joy, poem by Friedrich von Schiller, written 1785

Don Carlos, play by Friedrich von Schiller, 1787

Torquato Tasso, play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1790

Justine, novel by Marquis de Sade, 1791

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795-96

Jacques the Fatalist, novel by Denis Diderot, 1796

Wallenstein, plays by Friedrich von Schiller, 1798-99

Hymns to the Night, poems by Novalis, 1800

Mary Stuart, play by Friedrich von Schiller, 1800

Rene, prose by Chateaubriand, 1802

William Tell, play by Friedrich von Schiller, 1804

"Bread and Wine," poem by Friedrich Hlderlin, 1806(written 1800-01)

The Broken Jug, play by Heinrich von Kleist, 1808

Faust, play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: part I, 1808; part II, 1832

Elective Affinities, novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1809

Michael Kohlhaas, story by Heinrich von Kleist, 1810

"Hansel and Gretel," story by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1812

Peter Schlemihl, novella by Adelbert von Chamisso, 1814

The Devil’s Elixirs, novel by E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1815-16

The Story of Just Caspar and Fair Annie, novella by Clemens Brentano, 1817

"The Infinite," poem by Giacomo Leopardi, 1819

The Prince of Homburg, play by Heinrich von Kleist, 1821

"Homecoming," 20, poem by Heinrich Heine, 1824

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, novella by Joseph von Eichendorff, 1826

"Moses," poem by Alfred de Vigny, 1826 (written 1822)

The Betrothed, novel by Alessandro Manzoni, 1827

Scarlet and Black, novel by Stendhal, 1830

Eugene Onegin, poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, 1831

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, novel by Victor Hugo, 1831

The Waves of Sea and Love, play by Franz Grillparzer, 1831

The Bronze Horseman, poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, written 1833

Eugenie Grandet, novel by Honor de Balzac, 1833

Lorenzaccio, play by Alfred de Musset, 1834

Danton’s Death, play by Georg Bchner, 1835 (complete version 1850)

Chatterton, play by Alfred de Vigny, 1835

The Diary of a Madman, story by Nikolai Gogol’, 1835

Military Servitude and Grandeur, stories by Alfred de Vigny, 1835

Old Goriot, novel by Honore de Balzac, 1835

"To Himself," poem by Giacomo Leopardi, 1835

The Government Inspector, play by Nikolai Gogol’, 1836

"The Emperor’s New Clothes," story by Hans Christian Andersen, 1837

Lost Illusions, novel by Honore de Balzac, 1837-43

The Charterhouse of Parma, novel by Stendhal, 1839

A Hero of Our Times, novel by Mikhail Lermontov, 1840

Dead Souls, novel by Nikolai Gogol’, 1842

"Abdias," story by Adalbert Stifter, 1843

Maria Magdalena, play by Friedrich Hebbel, 1844

The Three Musketeers, novel by Alexandre Dumas pere, 1844

"The Broom," poem by Giacomo Leopardi, 1845

"The Snow Queen," story by Hans Christian Andersen, 1845

The Village Notary, novel by Baron Jozsef Eotvos, 1845

Cousin Bette, novel by Honore de Balzac, 1847

Camille, novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, 1848

Memoirs, prose by Chateaubriand, 1849-50

Immensee, novella by Theodor Storm, 1851 (written 1849)

The Jew’s Beech Tree, novella by Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, 1851

"Rock Crystal," story by Adalbert Stifter, 1853

"Art," poem by Theophile Gautier, 1856

Peasant Tales, stories by Bj0rnstjerne Bj0rnson, 1856?

Indian Summer, novel by Adalbert Stifter, 1857

Madame Bovary, novel by Gustave Flaubert, 1857

Oblomov, novel by Ivan Goncharov, 1859

First Love, novel by Ivan Turgenev, 1860

"Spleen," poems by Charles Baudelaire, 1861

"To the Reader," poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1861

Fathers and Sons, novel by Ivan Turgenev, 1862

Les Miserables, novel by Victor Hugo, 1862

"Windows," poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1863

Notes from the Underground, prose by Fedor Dostoevskii, 1864

"Herodiade," poem by Stephane Mallarme, 1864-98

Brand, play by Henrik Ibsen, 1865

"L’Angoisse," poem by Paul Verlaine, 1866

Crime and Punishment, novel by Fedor Dostoevskii, 1867

Peer Gynt, play by Henrik Ibsen, 1867

The Idiot, novel by Fedor Dostoevskii, 1869

A Month in the Country, play by Ivan Turgenev, 1869

Sentimental Education, novel by Gustave Flaubert, 1869

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