| HONR 218C | Western Intellectual Heritage: The Hero and Society |
A Rough Chronology of the Texts |
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| Author | Work | Date |
| Homer | Iliad | ca. 675 BCE |
| Bible | Judges (Samson story) | ca. 600 BCE |
| 1-2 Samuel (David story) | ca. 550 BCE | |
| Sophocles | Antigone | 441 BCE |
| Oedipus the King | 429 BCE | |
| Aristophanes | Clouds | 423 BCE |
| Plato | Apology of Socrates, etc. | ca. 390 BCE |
| Virgil | Aeneid | 19 BCE |
| Anonymous | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | ca. 1400 CE |
| Machiavelli | The Prince | 1513 CE |
| Shakespeare | Henry V | 1599 CE |
| Milton | Samson Agonistes | 1670 CE |
* The early sources for Judges and Samuel were written down much nearer the events, ca. 1000 to 900 BCE, but were edited to something like their present form. |
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