Authors listed chronologically

The Classical Age

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Homer (ca.800BC) Hesiod (ca.700BC) Aesop (620 - 560 BC) Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 BC) Euripides (480 or 484-406 BC) Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC - 385 BC)	Confucius (551-479 BCE) Lao Tzu (4thC BCE) Herodotus (485-420BCE) Hippocrates (460 - 377 BCE) Thucydides (ca. 460 BCE)
Apollonius of Rhodes, 3rd C. BCE	Xenophon (431- c. 360 BC) Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC) Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) Euclid (taught c. 300 BC) Epicurus (c340-c270BC) Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) Apollonius of Perga (fl 250-220 BC) Nicomachus of Gerasa
Catullus (c.84 B.C. - c.54 B.C.) Virgil (70-19 BC)	Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 BC - 43 BC) Lucretius (98? - 55 BC)
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD) Petronius, c.27-66	Livy (59 BC-17 C.E.) Seneca, L. Annaeus (ca. 3 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Epictetus (ca. 55-135 AD) Tacitus, Cornelius (circa AD 56 - circa AD 120) Pliny, the Younger (62-c. 114) Plutarch, 46-120
Apuleius, c. 123/125-c. 180	Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 Galen, 131-201 Plotinus, 205-270 Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 Fa-Hien or Fa-hsien (ca.337-ca.422) Boethius, d. 524

The "Dark Age"

Literature	Philosophy/Science/History
Beowulf (ca.800) The Mabinogion (ca.1000) Firdausi (c.934 - 1020) Omar Khayyám, 1048-1122	Saadi (1184-1283/1291?)

Renaissance

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Dante (1265 - 1321) Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca.1343-1400) Malory, Thomas, 1430-1471 Rabelais, Francois, 1494?-1553? Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599 Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Donne, John, 1572-1631 Cervantes, Miguel de, 1547-1616 Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639 Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 The King James Bible

Bury, Richard de, 1281-1345 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466-1536 Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543 More, Thomas, 1478-1535 Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 Gilbert, William, 1540-1603 Davis, John, 1543-1605 Hakluyt, Richard (c.1552-1616) Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Harvey, William, 1578-1657 Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679

The Age of Enlightenment

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Milton, John, 1608-1674 Molière, 1622-1673 Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 Barker, Jane, 1652-1732 Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731) Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 Gay, John, 1685-1732 Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Voltaire, 1694-1778 Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 Cleland, John, 1709-1789 Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 Cao Xueqin (ca. 1717-1763) Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Smollett, Tobias, 1721-1771 Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774 Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 Blake, William, 1757-1827 Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823 Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849

Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650 Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682 Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662 Christiaan Huygens, 1629-1693 Benedict de Spinoza, 1632-1677 Locke, John, 1632-1704 Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646-1716 Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 Hume, David, 1711-1776 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798 Cook, James,, 1728-1779 Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 Boswell, James, 1740-1795

Revolution & Romanticism

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 Stendhal, 1783-1842 Grimm, Jakob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Byron, George, 1788-1824 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 Keats, John, 1795-1821 Polidori, John, 1795-1821 Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867 Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851 Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885

Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794 Jenner, Edward,, 1749-1823 Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826 Tench, Watkin, 1758-1833 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 Malthus, Thomas, 1766-1834 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, 1772-1837 Trollope, Fanny, 1780-1863 Quincey, Thomas de, 1785-1859 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860 Michael Faraday, 1791-1867 Blaxland, Gregory, 1771-1853 Park, Mungo, 1771-1806 Oxley, John, 1783-1828 Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817 Mitchell, Thomas, 1792-1855 Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869 Richardson, James, 1806-1851

Realism -- Naturalism -- Symbolism

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850 Pushkin, Aleksandr, 1799-1837 Dumas, Alexandre, père,, 1802-1870 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Sand, George, 1804-1876 Tucker, James, 1803-1866 Gogol, Nikolai, 1809-1852 Tennyson, Alfred, 1809-1892 Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 Lermontov, Mikhail, 1814-1841 Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848 Turgenev, Ivan, 1818-1883 Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Bronte, Anne, 1820-1849 Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 Dumas, Alexandre, fils,, 1824-1895 Blackmore, R. D., 1825-1900 Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915 Meredith, George, 1828-1909 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910 Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883 Gaboriau, Émile, 1833-1873 Morris, William, 1834-1896 Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 Zola, Emile, 1840-1902 Hudson, William Henry, 1841-1922 James, Henry, 1843-1916 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Clarke, Marcus, 1846-1881 Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935 Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Borrow, George, 1803-1881 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891 Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848 Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901 Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 Lister, Joseph, 1827-1912 Burton, Isabel, 1831-1896 Giles, Ernest, 1835-1897 Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 Abbott, Edwin A., 1838-1926 Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841-1904 Jardine, Frank, 1841-1919 and Alexander Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 Bird, Isabella L., 1831-1904 Beeton, Isabella, 1836-1865 Fiske, John, 1842-1901 Banfield, Edmund James, 1852-1923

The Age of Uncertainty

Literature

Philosophy/Science/History

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950 Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 Gissing, George, 1857-1903 Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 Cholmondeley, Mary, 1859-1925 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952 Housman, A. E., 1859-1936 Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932 Chekhov, Anton, 1860-1904 Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Wells, H. G., 1866-1946 Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946 Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Buchan, John, 1875-1940 Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918 Joyce, James, 1882-1941 Merritt, Abraham, 1882-1943 Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930 Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940 Orwell, George, 1903-1950

Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875 Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 James, William, 1842-1910 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900 Frazer, Sir James George, 1854-1941 Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900 Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928 Shackleton, Ernest, 1874-1922 Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 Lawrence, T. E., 1888-1935

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