Timeline of Authors and Works

 

Because there is no way to date the entries on Native American and African works (they all originated from the oral tradition, and most were not put into written form until after 1800), we have listed them as having no date (“n.d.”).

Dates

Entry

n.d.

African proverbs

n.d.

Nahuatl poetry, ancient

n.d.

Chinook myths and tales

n.d.

Coyote tales

n.d.

creation myths,

 

Native American

n.d.

Navajo Nightway

 

Ceremony songs

n.d.

Ojibway myths and legends

n.d.

Oklahoma Cherokee

 

folktales

n.d.

O’othham Hoho’ok A’agitha

n.d.

telapnaawe narratives

n.d.

tuuwutsi narratives

n.d.

waikan narratives


n.d.

White Mountain Apache

 

myths and tales

n.d.

worak narratives

n.d.

Yaqui deer songs

n.d.

Zuni narrative poetry

ca. 2500-1300 B.C.

Gilgamesh

Dates

Entry

ca. 1500-600 B.C.

Rig-Veda

ca. 1400 B.c.-ca.

Book of the Dead

A.D. 200

 

1125-570 B.C.

Book of Songs

ca. 900s-100s B.C.

Bible, Hebrew

700s B.C.

Homer

700s B.C.

Hesiod

ca. 620-565 B.C.

Aesop

fl. ca. 610-ca.

Sappho of Lesbos

580 B.C.

 

600s-500s B.C.

Alcaeus

551-479 B.C.

Confucius

fl. ca. 550 B.C.

Valmiki, Maharishi

ca. 528-483 B.C.

Zen parables

ca. 525-456 B.C.

Aeschylus

ca. 522-ca. 438 B.C.

Pindar

500s B.C.

Anacreon

500s B.C.

Laozi (Lao Tzu)

late 500s B.C.

Sunzi (Sun Tzu)

ca. 496-ca. 405 B.C.

Sophocles

ca. 484-406 B.C.

Euripides

Dates

Entry

ca. 480-425 B.C.

Herodotus

ca. 469-399 B.C.

Socrates

ca. 460-ca. 400 B.C.

Thucydides

ca. 460-ca. 377 B.C.

Hippocrates

459-380 B.C.

Lysias

ca. 450-385 B.C.

Aristophanes

436-338 B.C.

Isocrates

ca. 431-ca. 352 B.C.

Xenophon

ca. 428-ca. 348 B.C.

Plato

400s B.C.

Bacchylides

400s-300s B.C.

Attic orators

400s B.C.-A.D. 1849

Kalevala

ca. 400 B.C.-ca. A.D. 400

Mahabharata

384-322 B.C.

Aristotle

384-322 B.C.

Demosthenes

ca. 372-ca. 287 B.C.

Theophrastus

ca. 342-292 B.C.

Menander

341-270 B.C.

Epicurus

332-296 B.C.

Qu Yuan (Ch’u Yuan)

ca. 305-ca. 240 B.C.

Callimachus

300s B.C.

Qu Elegies

300s B.C.

Isaeus

fl. ca. 300 B.C.

Euclid

ca. 295-ca. 247 B.C.

Apollonius of Rhodes

254-184 B.C.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

239-169 B.C.

Ennius, Quintus

ca. 200 b.c.-a.d. 135

Dead Sea Scrolls

ca. 185-159 B.C.

Terence

106-43 B.C.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

100-44 B.C.

Caesar, Julius

ca. 100s B.C.

Panchatantra

ca. 99-ca. 55 B.C.

Lucretius

ca. 90-43 B.C.

Hirtius

ca. 90-21 B.C.

Diodorus

86-35 B.C.

Sallust

84-54 B.C.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius

70-19 B.C.

Virgil

65-8 B.C.

Horace

63 B.C.-A.D. 14

Augustus

ca. 63 B.c.-ca.

Strabo

A.D. 24

 

59 B.C.-A.D. 17

Livy

Dates

Entry

ca. 50-ca. 15 b.c.

Propertius, Sextus

43 B.c.-ca. A.D. 18

Ovid

ca. 10-90s b.c.

Apollodorus

ca. 10-90s b.c.

Bhagavad Gita

ca. 10-90s b.c.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

ca. 4 b.c.-a.d. 65

Seneca

ca. 10-90s

Longinus

ca. 10s-90s

Phaedrus

10s-1400s

purana

23-79

Pliny the Elder

27-66

Petronius

ca. 37-ca. 101

Josephus, Flavius

39-65

Lucan

ca. 40-ca. 96

Quintilian

ca. 40-ca. 104

Martial

ca. 50-ca. 125

Plutarch

ca. 50-ca. 127

Juvenal

55-135

Epictetus

ca. 56-ca. 120

Tacitus, Cornelius

ca. 61-ca. 112

Pliny the Younger

78-139

Zhang Heng (Chang Heng)

ca. 115-ca. 180

Lucian

115-180

Pausanias

121-180

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

ca. 125-after 170

Apuleius

129-ca. 199

Galen

ca. 150-ca. 225

Sextus Empiricus

192-232

Cao Zhi (Ts’ao Chih)

200s

Longus

ca. 200-ca. 550

Talmud

205-270

Plotinus

210-263

Ruan Ji (Juan Chi)

ca. 232-ca. 303

Porphyry

300s

Kama Sutra

ca. 340-397

Ambrose, Saint

ca. 340-420

Jerome, Saint

354-430

Augustine, Saint

365-427

Tao Yuanming (Tao Ch’ien)

385-433

Xie Lingyun (Hsieh

 

Ling-yun)

400s

Jataka

400s

Kalidasa

ca. 410-485

Proclus

Dates

Entry

ca. 450-ca. 1450

Middle Ages

468-533

Fulgentius, Saint

ca. 480-524

Boethius

500s

‘Amr ibn Kulthum

500s

Hanged Poems

500s-1200s

bardic poetry

513-581

Yu Xin (Yu Hsin)

543-ca. 569

Tarafah ‘Amr ibn

 

al-’Abd

d. ca. 550

Imru’ al-Qays

ca. 560-661

Labid

ca. 570-632

Muhammad

575-ca. 661

‘All ibn Abl Talib

575-ca. 645

Khansa’, al-

600s

Caedmon

fl. 600s

Nukada, Princess

ca. 610-632

Koran

ca. 640-728

Farazdaq, al-

673-735

Bede

699-759

Wang Wei

701-762

Li Bai (Li Bo)

712

Kojiki

718-785

Otomo Yakamochi

fl. 750-800

Han Shan

768-824

Han Yu (Han Yu)

772-846

Bai Juyi (Po Chu-i)

776-868

Jahiz, al-

791-817

Li He (Li Ho)

800s-1200s

Thousand and One Nights,

 

The

ca. 800-ca. 1250

Edda

ca. 805-845

Abu Tammam

ca. 813-858

Li Shangyin (Li Shang-yin)

ca. 834-910

Wei Zhuang (Wei

 

Chuang)

849-899

Alfred the Great

fl. ca. 850

Ono no Komachi

ca. 872-946

Ki no Tsurayuki

891-1154

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

900s

Beowulf

900s

Shahnameh

900s-1100s

David of Sassoun

ca. 915-965

Mutanabbl, al-

 

Dates

Entry

ca. 935-1020 or

Firdawsl (Abu ol-Qasem

1026

Mansur)

936-995

Mother of Fujiwara

 

Michitsuna

ca. 965-unknown

Sei Shonagon

ca. 970-1030

Izumi Shikibu

973-1058

Ma’arrl, Abu al-’Ala’, al-

ca. 978-ca. 1016

Murasaki Shikibu

980-1037

Avicenna

1007-1072

Ouyang Xiu (Ou-yang

 

Hsiu)

ca. 1021-1058

Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben

 

Yehuda

1021-1086

Wang Anshi (Wang

 

An-shih)

ca. 1030-1070

Song of Roland

1037-1101

Su Shi (Su Shih)

ca. 1043-1099

Cid, El

ca. 1048-1131

Omar Khayyam

ca. 1057

Ostromir Gospel

before 1075-after

Halevi, Judah

1141

 

1083-ca. 1141

Li Qingzhao (Li Ch’ing-

 

chao)

1083-ca. 1154

Anna Comnena

1098-1179

Hildegard von Bingen

1100s

Abelard and Heloise

early 1100s

Jaufre Rudel

1100s

Nibelungenlied

1100s-1200s

Tristan and Iseult

ca. 1100-1155

Geoffrey of Monmouth

1126-1193

Fan Chengda (Fan

 

Ch’eng-t’a)

1126-1198

Averroes

1127-1206

Yang Wanli

1135-1204

Maimonides, Moses

ca. 1140-ca. 1210

Heinrich von Veldeke

ca. 1141-ca. 1203

Nezaml

ca. 1142-ca. 1220

‘Attar, Farld od-Dln

fl. ca. 1147-ca. 1170

Bernard de Ventadour

ca. 1150-ca. 1200

Marie de France

ca. 1150-ca. 1213

Villehardouin, Geoffroi de

ca. 1155-1216

Komo no Chomei

Dates

Entry

fl. 1160-1185

Chretien de Troyes

ca. 1160-1200

Hartmann von Aue

1162-1241

Fujiwara no Teika

ca. 1170-ca. 1225

Wolfram von Eschenbach

ca. 1170-ca. 1230

Walther von der Vogelweide

ca. 1175-1250

Roman de Renart

1179-1241

Sturluson, Snorri

fl. 1180-1200

Arnaut Daniel

ca. 1180-ca. 1225

Gottfried von Strassburg

ca. 1181-1226

Francis of Assissi, Saint

fl. ca. 1183-ca. 1204

Vidal, Peire

1185-1196

Song of Igor, The

ca. 1190-1249

Vigne, Pier delle

1200s

Aucassin et Nicolette

1200s

Daibu, Lady

1200s

Donzella, Compiuta

1200s

Epic ofSon-Jara

1200s

Kebra Nagast Chronicles

1200s

Sundiata, an Epic of Old Mali

ca. 1200-ca. 1544

myth of Manco Capac

1200-1268

Beatrice of Nazareth

Dates

Entry

d. 1201

Shikishi, Princess

1207-1283

Rumi, Jalaloddin

ca. 1210-ca. 1290

Saadi

ca. 1212-ca. 1294

Busiri, al-

ca. 1212-ca. 1294

Latini, Brunetto

ca. 1215-ca. 1237

Guillaume de Lorris

ca. 1224-1274

Thomas Aquinas, Saint

ca. 1225-1277

Romance of the Rose

ca. 1230-1306

Jacopone da Todi

ca. 1235-ca. 1280

Davanzati, Chiaro

ca. 1240-ca. 1305

Jean de Meun

fl. 1245-1285

Rutebeuf

fl. mid-1200s

Hadewijch

ca. 1250-ca. 1306

Adam de la Halle

ca. 1250-1337

Wang Shifu (Wang

 

Shih-fu)

1254-1324

Marco Polo

1260-ca. 1312

Angiolieri, Cecco

1265-1321

Dante Alighieri

ca. 1280

Njal’s Saga

1283-1352

Yoshida Kenko

1305-ca. 1370

Gao Ming (Kao Ming)

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