- Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000?-1400? BC)
- The Vedas (c. 2000?-200 BC)
- Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC)
- (Old Testament) (c. 1400?-300? BC)
- Iliad (c. 850? BC)
- Odyssey (c. 850? BC)
- The Upanishads (c. 800?-400? BC)
- Theogony (c. 700? BC)
- The Works and Days (c. 700? BC)
- The Spartan Creed (c. 650? BC)
- The Ramayana (c. 600? BC)
- Shield of Heracles (c. 580? BC)
- The Mahabharata (c. 540-300 BC)
- Analects (Confucius) (c. 500 BC)
- The Art of War (c. 500?-220? BC)
- Tao Te Ching (c. 500? BC)
- Pythian Odes (c. 498-446 BC)
- Olympian Odes (c. 488?-456? BC)
- Nemean Odes (c. 485-444? BC)
- Isthmian Odes (c. 480-454? BC)
- Prometheus Bound (c. 478-430? BC)
- The Persians (472 BC)
- Seven Against Thebes (467 BC)
- The Suppliant Maidens (Aeschylus) (463 BC)
- Agamemnon (458 BC)
- The Choephori (458 BC)
- The Eumenides (458 BC)
- The Oresteia (458 BC)
- Rhesus (450 BC)
