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Sumerian | Kesh Temple Hymn | Code of Urkagina | Enheduanna's Hymns | Curse of Agade, Debate between Bird and Fish, Lament for Ur, Enmerkar | Code of Lipit-Ishtar | Eridu Genesis | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Akkadian | Legend of Etana | | | | Laws of Eshnunna, Epic of Gilgamesh | Kultepe, Enuma Elis, Atra-Hasis, Code of Hammurabi, Mari Letters | Westcar Papyrus | Ipuwer Papyrus | Poor Man of Nippur, Military Oath, Dynasty of Dunnum | Marriage of Nergal and Ereshkigal, Autobiography of Kurigalzu, Amarna Letters | Epic of Gilgamesh, Tukulti-Ninurta Epic, Tale of Two Brothers | Sakikku, Diagnosis Omens | Epic of Erra | | | | | | |
Egyptian | | Pyramid Texts, Palermo, Maxims of Ptahhotep | Coffin Texts | Story of Sinuhe | Book of the Dead | Great Hymn to the Aten | Papyrus of Ani | Story of Wenamun | | | | | | | |
Hittite | | | | | | | Anitta text | Code of the Nesilim | | | | | | | | |
Sanskrit | | | | | | | Rigveda | | | | | RV 1 and RV 10, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda | | | | Brahmanas | | Sutra, Upanishads | Epics | | Panchatantra |
Hebrew | | | | | | | | | | Torah | | | Jahwist Portions | Eloshist Portions, Nahum, Hosea, Amos, Isaiah | Rest of the Torah | Job, Wisdom | Ecclesiastes |
Babylonian | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Babylonian Theodicy | | | | | | | |
Chinese | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Classic of Poetry, of Changes, of Documents | | | | Sun Tzu, The Art of War | Spring and Autumn Annals, Confucius, Classic of Rites, Commentaries of Zuo | Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius | |
Greek | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trojan War, Iliad, Odyssey | Hesios, Archiolchus, Alcman, Semonides of Amorgos, Solon, Mimnermus, Stesichorus | Sappho, Ibycus, Alcaeus of Mylitene, Aesop | Pindar, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eruipides, Arisophanes | Zenopho, Aristotle, Plato, Euclid, Menander, Theophrastus | Appolonius, Callimachus, Manetho, Theocritus |
Avestan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Yasht | Avesta |
Etruscan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis |
Tamil | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sangan, Tolkappiyam |