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		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

		37 BC
		Virgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues, influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his birth near Mantua

		23 BC
		The first three books of Horace's Odes are published, written on his Sabine farm

		c. 20 BC
		A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores, brings Ovid an early success

		c. 380
		Kalidasa, the most distinguished of India's authors in classical Sanskrit, is at the Gupta court in Patna

		c. 600
		The classic form of Arabic poetry, predating Islam, evolves as the qasidah

		c. 730
		Three of China's most famous poets - Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu - are contemporaries during the T'ang dynasty

		778
		An attack on Charlemagne's army, traditionally at the pass of Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees, is later the basis for the Chanson de Roland

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