Writers and Works Covered, by Geographical Area

 

AFRICA

African proverbs
Book of the Dead
Epic of Son-Jara
Kebra Nagast Chronicles
Sundiata, an Epic of Old Mali

ASIA

China

Bai Juyi (Po Chü-i)
Book of Songs
Cao Zhi (Ts’ao Chih)
Confucius
Fan Chengda (Fan Ch’eng-t’a)
Han Shan
Han Yu (Han Yü)
Gao Ming (Kao Ming)
Laozi (Lao Tzu)
Li Bai (Li Bo)
Li He (Li Ho)
Li Qingzhao (Li Ch’ing-chao)
Li Shangyin (Li Shang-yin)
mythology, Oceanic
Ouyang Xiu (Ou-yang Hsiu)
Qu Elegies
Qu Yuan (Ch’ü Yüan)
Ruan Ji (Juan Chi)

Sunzi (Sun Tzu)
Su Shi (Su Shih)
Tao Yuanming (Tao Ch’ien)
Wang Anshi (Wang An-shih)
Wang Shifu (Wang Shih-fu)
Wang Wei
Wei Zhuang (Wei Chuang)
Xie Lingyun (Hsieh Ling-yün)
Yang Wanli
Yu Xin (Yü Hsin)
Zen parables
Zhang Heng (Chang Heng)

India
Bhagavad Gita
Kalidasa
Kama Sutra
Mahabharata
Panchatantra
purana
Rig-Veda
Valmiki,Maharishi
Japan
Daibu, Lady
Fujiwara no Teika
Izumi Shikibu
Kamo no Chomei

Ki no Tsurayuki
Kojiki
Mother of Fujiwara Michitsuna
Murasaki Shikibu
Nukada, Princess
Ono no Komachi
Otomo Yakamochi
Sei Sh¯onagon
Shikishi, Princess
tanka
Yoshida Kenk¯o
Thailand
Jataka

EUROPE

Britain and Ireland
Alfred the Great
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
bardic poetry
Bede
Beowulf
Geoffrey of Monmouth
mythology, Celtic
French-Speaking Europe
Abélard and Héloïse
Adam de la Halle
Arnaut Daniel
Aucassin et Nicolette
Bernard de Ventadour
Chrétien de Troyes
Guillaume de Lorris
Jaufré Rudel
Jean de Meun
Marie de France
Old English poetry
Romance of the Rose
Roman de Renart
Rutebeuf
Song of Roland
Tristan and Iseult
troubadours

Vidal, Peire
Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
German-Speaking Europe, Scandinavia,and the Netherlands
Beatrice of Nazareth
Edda
Gottfried von Strassburg
Hadewijch
Hartmann von Aue
Heinrich von Veldeke
Hildegard von Bingen
Kalevala
mythology, Norse
Nibelungenlied
Njal’s Saga
Snorri Sturluson
Walther von der Vogelweide
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Greece/Rome
Aeschylus
Aesop
Alcaeus
Ambrose, Saint
Anacreon
Apollodorus
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apuleius
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Attic orators
Augustine, Saint
Augustus
Bacchylides
Boethius
Caesar, Julius
Callimachus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Cicero,Marcus Tullius
Demosthenes
Diodorus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Ennius, Quintus

Epictetus
Epicurus
Euclid
Euripides
Fulgentius, Saint
Galen
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Hirtius, Aulus
Homer
Horace
Isaeus
Isocrates
Jerome, Saint
Josephus, Flavius
Juvenal
Livy
Longinus
Longus
Lucan
Lucian
Lucretius
Lysias
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Martial
Menander
mythology, Greek and Roman
Ovid
Pausanias
Petronius
Phaedrus
Pindar
Plato
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Younger
Plotinus
Plutarch
Porphyry
Proclus
Propertius, Sextus
Quintilian
Sallust

Sappho of Lesbos
Seneca
Sextus Empiricus
Socrates
Sophocles
Strabo
Tacitus, Cornelius
Terence
Theophrastus
Thucydides
Virgil
Xenophon
Italy
Angiolieri, Cecco
Dante Alighieri
Davanzati, Chiaro
Donzella, Compiuta
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Jacopone da Todi
Latini, Brunetto
Polo,Marco
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Vigne, Pier delle
Russia/Eastern Europe
Ostromir Gospel
Song of Igor, The
Spain and Portugal
Cid, El
Maimonides, Moses

MIDDLE EAST

Abu Tammam

‘All ibn Abl Talib

‘Amr ibu Kulthum

Anna Comnena

‘Attar, Farld od-Dln

Averroes

Avicenna Bible,

Hebrew Busiri, al-

Caedmon

David of Sassoun

Dead Sea Scrolls

Farazdaq, al-

Firdawsi (Abu ol-Qasem Mansur)

Gilgamesh

Halevi, Judah

Hanged Poems

Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Yehuda

Imru’ al-Qays

Jahiz, al-

Khansa’, al-

Koran

Labid

Ma’arrl, Abu al-’Ala’, al-

Muhammad Mutanabbi, al-

Nezaml

Omar Khayyam

Rumi, Jalaloddin

Saadl

Shahnameh

Talmud

Tarafah ‘Amr ibn al- ‘Abd

Thousand and One Nights, The

THE AMERICAS

Chinook myths and tales
Coyote tales
creation myths, Native American
myth of Manco Capac
Nahuatl poetry, ancient
Navajo Nightway Ceremony songs
O’othham Hoho’ok A’agitha
Ojibway myths and legends
Oklahoma Cherokee folktales
telapnaawe narratives
tuuwutsi narratives
waikan
White Mountain Apache myths and tales
worak narratives
Yaqui deer songs
Zuni narrative poetry

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