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Poetry timeline
c. 1500 BC
Sacrificial hymns of the Aryans, gathered in the
Rigveda
, become the earliest Sanskrit literature
c. 750 BC
The Homeric texts, the
Iliad
and the
Odyssey
, are written down - probably in Ionia
c. 600 BC
The poems of the
Shi Jing
, China's earliest work of literature, are gathered together
484 BC
Aeschylus wins the prize for tragedy at the City Dionysia in Athens
468 BC
Sophocles wins the prize for tragedy in Athens, defeating Aeschylus in the competition
454 BC
Euripides enters the drama contest at the City Dionysia in Athens for the first time
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