Texts Listed Chronologically

Mesopotamian

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Praise Poem of Shulgi c. 2100BC  Sumerian Goddess Inana attacks a Mountain Range Ebih   Law Code of Hammurabi, Babylonia c.1780BC Enuma Elish The Seven Tablets of Creation 2nd Millennium BC Babylonian Account of Creation, different translation  Enuma Elish   yet another translation The Revolt of Heaven, ( Assyrian) Law Code of the Assura,  Assyria ca 1075BC The Annals of Sargon king of Assyria r. 722–705 BC Chaldaean Account of the Deluge

Egyptian

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Egyptian Creation Myth Khepera Creation   The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep Treaty of Peace Between Rameses II and the Hittites Inscription of Queen Hatasu (Hatshepsut) on the Base of the Great Obilisk of Karnak Excerpts from an account of the Battle of Kadesh  The Invasion of Egypt by Sea Peoples Reign of Rameses II

The Classical Age Greece

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Homer (ca.800BC) Hesiod (ca.700BC) Aesop (620 - 560 BC) Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 BC) Euripides (480 or 484-406 BC) Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC - 385 BC)	Herodotus (485-420BC) Hippocrates (460 - 377 BC) Thucydides (ca. 460 BC)
	Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC) Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) Euclid (taught c. 300 BC) Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) Apollonius of Perga (fl 250-220 BC) Nicomachus of Gerasa

The Classical Age Roman

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Catullus (c.84 B.C. - c.54 B.C.) Virgil (70-19 BC)	Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 BC - 43 BC) Lucretius (98? - 55 BC)
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)	Livy (59 BC-17 C.E.) Seneca, L. Annaeus (ca. 3 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Epictetus (ca. 55-135 AD) Tacitus, Cornelius (circa AD 56 - circa AD 120) Pliny, the Younger (62-c. 114) Plutarch (46-120)
	Marcus Aurelius(121-180) Galen (131-201) Plotinus (205-270) Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

The "Dark Age"

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Beowulf (ca.800) Firdausi (c.934 - 1020)

Renaissance

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Dante (1265 - 1321) Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca.1343-1400) Malory, Thomas (1430-1471) Machiavelli, Nicolo (1469-1527) Rabelais, Francois (1494?-1553?) Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) Marlowe, Christopher (1564 - 1593) Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Donne, John (1572-1631) Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) Campanella, Tommaso (1568-1639) Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) The King James Bible: Old and New Testaments

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) More, Thomas (1478-1535) Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) William Gilbert (1540-1603) Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) William Harvey (1578-1657) Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

The Age of Enlightenment

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Milton, John (1608-1674) Dryden, John (1631-1700) Behn, Aphra (1640-1689 Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Gay, John (1685-1732) Voltaire (1694-1778) Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) Cleland, John (1709-1789) Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Boswell, James (1740-1795)	Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) Christiaan Huygens (1629-1693) Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) Locke, John (1632-1704) Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) Berkeley, George (1685-1753) Hume, David (1711-1776) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

Revolution & Romanticism

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) Irving, Washington (1783-1859) Stendhal (1783-1842) Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) Keats, John (1795-1821) Bulfinch, Thomas (1796-1867) Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)	Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) Malthus, Thomas (1766-1834) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1772-1837) Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Realism -- Naturalism -- Symbolism

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) Sand, George (1804-1876) Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852) Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Lermontov, Mikhail (1814-1841) Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855) Bronte, Emily (1818-1848) Turgenev, Ivan (1818-1883) Eliot, George (1819-1880) Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Bronte, Anne (1820-1849) Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881) Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889) Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) Morris, William (1834-1896) Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Zola, Emile (1840-1902) James, Henry (1843-1916) Lang, Andrew (1844-1912) Clarke, Marcus (1846-1881) Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893) Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Australian Exploration: Blaxland, Gregory (1771-1853) Sturt, Charles (1795-1869) Leichhardt, Ludwig (1813-1848) Eyre, Edward John (1815-1901) Giles, Ernest (1835-1897) Jardine, Frank (1841-1919) and Alexander Fiske, John (1842-1901)

The Age of Uncertainty

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930) Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952) Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) (1865-1939) Wells, H. G. (1866-1946) Gorky, Maksim (1868-1936) Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) Joyce, James (1882-1941) Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930) Orwell, George (1903-1950)	Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) Marx, Karl (1818-1883) Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913) William James (1842-1910) Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Shackleton, Ernest (1874-1922) Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)