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| c. 170 |
| | | Marcus Aurelius is rare among emperors in writing twelve books of philosophical Meditations | |
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| c. 244 |
| | | Plotinus, moving from Alexandria to Rome, teaches the influential philosophy later known as Neo-Platonism | |
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| c. 380 |
| | | Kalidasa, the most distinguished of India's authors in classical Sanskrit, is at the Gupta court in Patna | |
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| c. 413 |
| | | Prompted by the fall of Rome to the Visigoths, St Augustine undertakes a great work of Christian philosophy, the City of God | |
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| 525 |
| | | Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1 | |
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| c. 525 |
| | | Boethius, in prison in Pavia and awaiting execution, writes the Consolation of Philosophy | |
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| 529 |
| | | Justinian closes down the schools of Athens, famous for their tradition of pagan philosophy | |
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| 591 |
| | | Gregory, bishop of Tours, brings his 'History of the Franks' up to this year | |
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| c. 600 |
| | | The classic form of Arabic poetry, predating Islam, evolves as the qasidah | |
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| c. 730 |
| | | Three of China's most famous poets - Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu - are contemporaries during the T'ang dynasty | |
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