-- Ancient Egypt. Egyptian book of the dead ; Egyptian Scribal Admonition -- Hebrews. Genesis 1-4 ; Exodus 20-23 ; Psalms 23 ; Daniel 1 ; Daniel 2 -- Ancient India. Rig Veda ; Upanishads ; Bhagavad Gita ; The Buddha's first sermon ; Ashoka, Pillar Edicts ; The laws of Manu -- Ancient and medieval China. Book of Documents ; The Analects ; The Dao de Jing (Tao Te Ching) ; Sun Zi (Sun Tzu), The art of war ; Gongsun Yang (Lord Shang) and Han Feizi, Legalist Theory ; Ban Zhao, Admonitions for women ; The examination system -- Feudal Japan. Creation myth ; Constitution of Prince Shotoku ; Murasaki, The tale of Genji -- Ancient Greece. Homer, The Iliad ; Sappho, to absent lovers ; Thucydides, The Peloponnesian war ; Plato, The republic ; Aristotle, Politics -- Ancient Rome. Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars ; Tacitus, Germania ; Petronius, Satyricon -- Early Christianity. Mark 1 ; Matthew 6 ; Acts 15 ; Letters of St. Paul of Tarsus : 1 Corinthians 13, Galatians 3, and Romans 3-4 ; Pliny the Younger, Letter on the Christians ; The Didache ; Eusebius, The conversions of Constantine ; Nicene creed -- Byzantium. Justinian's code ; Procopius, Building and Anecdota (Secret history) ; Anna Comnena, The Alexiad --

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