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The Ancients
Everything written before 500 AD. The foundations of Western and Eastern literature, philosophy, and drama. Three thousand years and still no one has improved on most of it.
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- The Epic of GilgameshAnonymous (-2100)Epic Poem
- The IliadHomer (-750)Epic Poem
- The OdysseyHomer (-750)Epic Poem
- The AeneidVirgil (-19)Epic Poem
- MetamorphosesOvid (8)Epic Poem
- Oedipus RexSophocles (-429)Play
- AntigoneSophocles (-441)Play
- MedeaEuripides (-431)Play
- The BacchaeEuripides (-405)Play
- LysistrataAristophanes (-411)Play
- OresteiaAeschylus (-458)Play
- The ApologyPlato (-399)Philosophy
- The RepublicPlato (-375)Philosophy
- The SymposiumPlato (-385)Philosophy
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle (350)Philosophy
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius (180)Philosophy
- The EnchiridionEpictetus (135)Philosophy
- Letters to LuciliusSeneca (65)Letters
- Fragment 31Sappho (-600)Poem
- The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius (524)Philosophy
- ConfessionsSaint Augustine (400)Autobiography
- The Book of JobAnonymous (-600)Religious Text
- The Bhagavad GitaAnonymous (-200)Religious Text
- The Tao Te ChingLaozi (-600)Philosophy
- The DhammapadaAnonymous (-300)Religious Text
- ZhuangziZhuang Zhou (-300)Philosophy
- MahabharataVyasa (-400)Epic Poem
- The MasnaviRumi (1273)Novel
- BeowulfAnonymous (850)Epic Poem