World Literature 1 Timeline by Sandra Sokowski

Egyptian Love Poems (1300-1100 BCE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 18:03:38 UTC

How beautiful is your beloved

the one adored of your heart

when she has returned from the meadow!

Sappho (630 BCE - ?)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 18:19:44 UTC

Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind, child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg you

do not break with hard pains,

oh Lady, my heart

Confucius (551-479 BCE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 18:43:46 UTC

The Master said, "He who rules by virtue is like the polestar, which remains unmoving in its mansion while all the other stars revolve respectfully around it."

Laozi (604-531 BCE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 18:52:30 UTC

Highest good is like water. Because water excels at benefitting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes close to the way.

Sophocles (496-406 BCE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 19:01:48 UTC

Oedipus: Ah God! It was true! All the prophecies! Now - Oh Light, may I look upon you for the last time! I, Oedipus,

Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his marriage damned, damned in the blood he shed with his own hand!

Bhavakadevi (ca. 400-600 CE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 19:13:58 UTC

At first our bodies knew a perfect oneness,

but then grew two with you as lover

and I, unhappy I, the loved.

Now you are husband, I the wife,

what's left except of this my life,

too hard to break, to reap the bitter fruit,

your broken faith.

Vidya (400-600 CE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-06 19:19:39 UTC

Good neighbor wife, I beg you

keep your eye upon my house a moment

the baby's father hates to drink

the tasteless water from the well.

Better I go then, though alone, to the riverbank

dark with tamala trees and thick with canes,

which with their sharp and broken stems

may scratch my breast.

Book of Genesis from the Hebrew Bible. (1000 BCE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-16 16:52:52 UTC

The LORD saw that wickedness of man was great in the earth, that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Epic of Gilgamesh (1900 BCE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-16 16:56:45 UTC

Gilgamesh said to him, to Utanapishtim, the Distant One: As I look upon you, Utanapishtim, your limbs are not different, you are just as I am.

Qur'an (610-632 CE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-23 16:13:51 UTC

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

Kaf. Ha. Ya. Ayn. Saad.

...

And mention in the scripture Mary, when she withdrew from her family to an eastern location.

Book of Luke (70 CE)

ssokowski — 2024-02-23 16:17:45 UTC

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was first registration with Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem,

Epic of Sunjata 12th c. CE

ssokowski — 2024-03-25 16:42:20 UTC

Christine de Pisan 1364-1431 CE

ssokowski — 2024-03-25 16:44:42 UTC

Francis Petrarch 1304 - 1374 CE

ssokowski — 2024-03-25 16:46:43 UTC

It was the morning of that blessèd day

Whereon the Sun in pity veiled his glare

For the Lord’s agony, that, unaware

I fell a captive, Lady, to the sway

Of your swift eyes: that seemed no time to stay

The strokes of love: I stepped into the snare

Secure, with no suspicion, then and there

I found my cue in man’s most tragic play.

Love caught me naked to his shaft, his sheaf

The entrance for his ambush and surprise

Against the heart wide open through the eyes,

The constant gate and fountain of my grief.

How craven so to strike me striken so

Yet from you fully armed conceal his bow!

Popol Vuh - Transcribed 1554-1558

ssokowski — 2024-04-24 14:29:48 UTC

Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616

ssokowski — 2024-04-24 14:31:47 UTC

Don Quixote was published in 1605.