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) |