Authors

157 authors who shaped the Western literary canon.

Moses

c. 1400–c. 1280 BCE·Ancient Israel
5

Joshua

c. 1350–c. 1240 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Samuel

c. 1070–c. 1012 BCE·Ancient Israel
4

David

c. 1040–c. 970 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Solomon

c. 990–c. 931 BCE·Ancient Israel
4

Homer

c. 800–c. 701 BCE·Ancient Greece
2

Joel

c. 800–c. 740 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Jonah

c. 800–c. 740 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Amos

c. 790–c. 740 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Hosea

c. 785–c. 725 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Isaiah

c. 765–c. 695 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Micah

c. 757–c. 696 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Hesiod

c. 750–c. 650 BCE·Ancient Greece
1

Nahum

c. 670–c. 620 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Jeremiah

c. 650–c. 570 BCE·Ancient Israel
4

Zephaniah

c. 650–c. 610 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Habakkuk

c. 630–c. 590 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Sappho

c. 630–c. 570 BCE·Ancient Greece
1

Baruch

c. 625–c. 580 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Ezekiel

c. 622–c. 570 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Aesop

c. 620–c. 564 BCE·Ancient Greece
1

Daniel

c. 620–c. 538 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Lao Tzu

c. 601–c. 531 BCE·China
1

Obadiah

c. 600–c. 560 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Confucius

551–479 BCE·China
1

Haggai

c. 545–c. 500 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Sun Tzu

c. 544–c. 496 BCE·China
1

Zechariah

c. 540–c. 480 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Aeschylus

c. 525–456 BCE·Ancient Greece
5

Sophocles

c. 496–406 BCE·Ancient Greece
7

Herodotus

c. 484–c. 425 BCE·Ancient Greece
1

Euripides

c. 480–406 BCE·Ancient Greece
3

Ezra

c. 480–c. 440 BCE·Ancient Israel
4

Malachi

c. 460–c. 420 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Thucydides

c. 460–c. 400 BCE·Ancient Greece
1

Aristophanes

c. 446–c. 386 BCE·Ancient Greece
7

Plato

c. 428–c. 348 BCE·Ancient Greece
4

Aristotle

384–322 BCE·Ancient Greece
2

Jesus ben Sirach

c. 220–c. 175 BCE·Ancient Israel
1

Marcus Tullius Cicero

106–43 BCE·Ancient Rome
2

Lucretius

c. 99–c. 55 BCE·Ancient Rome
1

Virgil

70–19 BCE·Ancient Rome
3

Horatius

65–8 BCE·Ancient Rome
1

Ovid

43 BCE–c. 17 CE·Ancient Rome
1

Matthew

c. 4 BCE–c. 74 CE·Ancient Israel
1

Seneca

c. 4 BCE–65 CE·Ancient Rome
1

Peter

c. 1 BCE–c. 64 CE·Ancient Israel
2

James

c. 1–c. 62·Ancient Israel
1

Jude

c. 1–c. 65·Ancient Israel
1

Mark

c. 5–c. 68·Ancient Israel
1
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