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c. 2500 BCEBeginning of literature in Sumerian.
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2285 BCE - 2250 BCELife of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and world's first author known by name.
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c. 2150 BCE - c. 1400 BCEThe tales of Gilgamesh written which inform The Epic of Gilgamesh
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c. 1900 BCE - c. 1600 BCEComposition of The Descent of Inanna.
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c. 1900 BCE - c. 1600 BCEThe poem "Descent of Inanna" is written.
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c. 1640 BCE - c. 1700 BCEWritten form of the Atrahasis Myth of the Great Flood.
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1345 BCEThe world's first manual on training horses is written by the Mitanni horse trainer Kikkuli (found in Hattusa).
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c. 1120 BCEExtant copy of the Sumerian Enuma Elish (creation story) is made from much older text.
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c. 800 BCE - c. 700 BCEHomer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.
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c. 700 BCEGreek poet Hesiod writes his Theogony and Works and Days.
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c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCEExtensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
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c. 500 BCEThe Indian epic the Ramayana is composed by the sage Valmiki.
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c. 400 BCE - c. 200 CEThe Bhagavad Gita, part of the Mahabharata, is written at some point between 400 BCE and 200 CE.
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213 BCEThe Burning of the Books and the Burying of Philosophers Period in China.
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c. 205 BCE - 184 BCEPlautus writes his Roman comedy plays.
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c. 200 BCEPlautus' comedy play Stichus is first performed.
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c. 191 BCEPlautus' comedy play Pseudolus is first performed.
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c. 100 BCEBuddhist sutras began to be written down in Pali.
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59 BCE - 17 CELife of Livy.
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43 BCE - 17 CELife of the Roman writer Ovid, author of Metamorphoses.
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c. 30 BCE - c. 19 BCERoman poet Virgil writes his Aeneid.
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23 CE - Aug 79 CELife of Pliny the Elder.
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c. 69 CE - c. 130 CELife of Roman biographer Suetonius who wrote 'The Twelve Caesars'.
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148 CEAn Shigao is the first Buddhist translator mentioned in Chinese sources who established a translation centre in the Chinese imperial capital, Luoyang.