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| c. 750 BC |
| | The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | The poems of the Shi Jing, China's earliest work of literature, are gathered together | |
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| 484 BC |
| | Aeschylus wins the prize for tragedy at the City Dionysia in Athens | |
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| 468 BC |
| | Sophocles wins the prize for tragedy in Athens, defeating Aeschylus in the competition | |
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| 454 BC |
| | Euripides enters the drama contest at the City Dionysia in Athens for the first time | |
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| 423 BC |
| | Socrates is now sufficiently prominent to be satirized in Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes | |
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| c. 425 BC |
| | Aristophanes wins first prize in Athens for his comedy The Acharnians | |
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| 37 BC |
| | Virgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues, influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his birth near Mantua | |
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| 23 BC |
| | The first three books of Horace's Odes are published, written on his Sabine farm | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores, brings Ovid an early success | |
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