Authors
157 authors who shaped the Western literary canon.
Moses
c. 1400–c. 1280 BCE·Ancient Israel
Joshua
c. 1350–c. 1240 BCE·Ancient Israel
Samuel
c. 1070–c. 1012 BCE·Ancient Israel
David
c. 1040–c. 970 BCE·Ancient Israel
Solomon
c. 990–c. 931 BCE·Ancient Israel
Homer
c. 800–c. 701 BCE·Ancient Greece
Joel
c. 800–c. 740 BCE·Ancient Israel
Jonah
c. 800–c. 740 BCE·Ancient Israel
Amos
c. 790–c. 740 BCE·Ancient Israel
Hosea
c. 785–c. 725 BCE·Ancient Israel
Isaiah
c. 765–c. 695 BCE·Ancient Israel
Micah
c. 757–c. 696 BCE·Ancient Israel
Hesiod
c. 750–c. 650 BCE·Ancient Greece
Nahum
c. 670–c. 620 BCE·Ancient Israel
Jeremiah
c. 650–c. 570 BCE·Ancient Israel
Zephaniah
c. 650–c. 610 BCE·Ancient Israel
Habakkuk
c. 630–c. 590 BCE·Ancient Israel
Sappho
c. 630–c. 570 BCE·Ancient Greece
Baruch
c. 625–c. 580 BCE·Ancient Israel
Ezekiel
c. 622–c. 570 BCE·Ancient Israel
Aesop
c. 620–c. 564 BCE·Ancient Greece
Daniel
c. 620–c. 538 BCE·Ancient Israel
Lao Tzu
c. 601–c. 531 BCE·China
Obadiah
c. 600–c. 560 BCE·Ancient Israel
Confucius
551–479 BCE·China
Haggai
c. 545–c. 500 BCE·Ancient Israel
Sun Tzu
c. 544–c. 496 BCE·China
Zechariah
c. 540–c. 480 BCE·Ancient Israel
Aeschylus
c. 525–456 BCE·Ancient Greece
Sophocles
c. 496–406 BCE·Ancient Greece
Herodotus
c. 484–c. 425 BCE·Ancient Greece
Euripides
c. 480–406 BCE·Ancient Greece
Ezra
c. 480–c. 440 BCE·Ancient Israel
Malachi
c. 460–c. 420 BCE·Ancient Israel
Thucydides
c. 460–c. 400 BCE·Ancient Greece
Aristophanes
c. 446–c. 386 BCE·Ancient Greece
Plato
c. 428–c. 348 BCE·Ancient Greece
Aristotle
384–322 BCE·Ancient Greece
Jesus ben Sirach
c. 220–c. 175 BCE·Ancient Israel
Marcus Tullius Cicero
106–43 BCE·Ancient Rome
Lucretius
c. 99–c. 55 BCE·Ancient Rome
Virgil
70–19 BCE·Ancient Rome
Horatius
65–8 BCE·Ancient Rome
Ovid
43 BCE–c. 17 CE·Ancient Rome
Matthew
c. 4 BCE–c. 74 CE·Ancient Israel
Seneca
c. 4 BCE–65 CE·Ancient Rome
Peter
c. 1 BCE–c. 64 CE·Ancient Israel
James
c. 1–c. 62·Ancient Israel
Jude
c. 1–c. 65·Ancient Israel
Mark
c. 5–c. 68·Ancient Israel
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