Pre 13th century in literature
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See also: 13th century in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New Books/Scriptures
- 20th century BC: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian mythology)
- 19th century BC: The Ramayana (Hindu mythology)
- 1316 BC: The Mahabharata (of which the Bhagavad Gita is a section) (Hindu mythology)
- 8th century BC:
- The Iliad by Homer (Greek mythology)
- The Odyssey by Homer (Greek mythology)
- The Theogony by Hesiod
- 5th century BC:
- The odes of Pindar
- The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Oresteia by Aeschylus
- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Electra by Sophocles
- Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Trojan Women, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Helen, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides
- The Acharnians, The Knights, The Clouds, The Wasps, Peace, The Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazousae, The Frogs, Ecclesiazousae, Plutus by Aristophanes
- The Five Classics (Classic of Poetry, Classic of History, Book of Changes, Classic of Rites, and Annals of Spring and Autumn, traditionally by Confucius
- 4th century BC:
- Anabasis, Cyropaedia by Xenophon
- Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics by Aristotle
- Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Theaetetus, Parmenides, Symposium, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, Menexenus, Republic, Timaeus by Plato
- Elements by Euclid
- 3rd century BC: Liber Linteus
- 2nd century BC:
- 1st century BC:
- Torah (not all books were written at the same time.)
- Bible (not all books were written at the same time.)
- 1st century:
- 2nd century:
- Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian
- Almagest by Ptolemy
- Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus
- Enchiridion by Epictetus
- The Golden Ass by Apuleius
- Liber Memorialis by Lucius Ampelius
- Description of Greece by Pausanias
- Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
- 3rd century:
- 4th century:
- 5th century:
- The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
- Vulgate of St. Jerome
- Psychomachia by Prudentius
- Hou Hanshu compiled by Fan Yeh
- 6th century: Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville
- 7th century: Qur'an
- 8th century:
- 9th century:
- 10th century:
- 11th century:
- 1086 - Domesday Book
- Proslogium by Anselm of Canterbury
- Le Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland)
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- 12th century:
- Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus
- Peterborough Chronicle
- The Alexiad by Anna Comnena
- Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth
- The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli
- Sic et Non by Pierre Abélard
- Lais by Marie de France
- Chronicon Slavorum by Adam of Bremen
- Nibelungenlied
- Mabinogion
- Ludus de Antichristo
- Metrical Dindshenchas
- Táin Bó Cúailnge
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign
- Chronicle of Nestor
- Chanson d'Antioche
- Chronicon Lethrense
- Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
- Brevis Historia Regum Dacie by Sven Aggesen
- Chronicon Roskildense
- Annales Lundenses
- Gesta Francorum
- Chronicon Roskildense
- The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli