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