War Aeschylus: The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Oresteia Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Electra and other plays Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliants, Electra, Heracles, Trojan Women, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Ion, Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Cyclops, Rhesus Aristophanes: The Acharnians, The Knights, The Clouds, The Wasps, Peace, The Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, The Frogs, Ecclesiazousae, Plutus Hebrew: date of the extant text of the Torah 4th century BC Sanskrit: Katha Upanishad Prashnopanishad Mundaka Upanishad Māṇḍūkya Upanishad Bhadrabahu: Kalpa Sūtra Chankaya: Arthshastra, Chanakya Neeti Salihotra: Shalihotra Samhita (treatise on veterinary medicine) Vyasa: Mahabharata, Puranas, Brahma Sutras Jaimini: Mimamsa Sutras, Jaimini Sutras, Ashvamedhika Parva Valmiki : Ramayana Bhāsa: Svapnavāsavadattam, Pancarātra, Pratijna Yaugandharayaanam, Pratimanātaka, Abhishekanātaka, Bālacharita, Karnabhāram, Dūtaghaṭotkaca, Chārudatta, Madhyamavyayoga and Urubhanga. Pali: Tipitaka Hebrew: Book of Job, beginning of Hebrew wisdom literature Chinese: Laozi (or Lao Tzu): Tao Te Ching Zhuangzi: Zhuangzi (book) Mencius: Mencius Shang Yang: The Book of Lord Shang (Shāng jūn shū) Persian: DNa inscription Greek: Xenophon: Anabasis, Cyropaedia, Oeconomicus, Memorabilia, Hellenica Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, Organon, Physics, Historia Animalium, De Partibus Animalium, De Motu Animalium, De Mundo, De Caelo, Poetics, Politics, Magna Moralia, Eudemian Ethics Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Theaetetus, Parmenides, Symposium, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, Republic, Timaeus, Critias, Laws, Menexenus, Phaedo, Lysis, Alcibiades I, Alcibiades II, Hippias minor, Epinomis, Minos, Hipparchus, Ion Euclid: Elements Menander: Dyskolos Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants 3rd century BC Avestan: Avesta Etruscan: Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (Linen Book of Zagreb) Sanskrit: Pingala: Chandaḥśāstra Moggaliputta-Tissa: Kathāvatthu Kātyāyana: Vārttikakāra, Śulbasūtras Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra Vedanga Jyotisha Bharata Muni: Natya Shastra (A theoretical treatise on classical Indian dance and drama) Sinhalese (Elu): Sīhalattakathā or Hela Atuwā (Pali commentaries of Buddhist teachings that were translated into Sinhalese after the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka) Tamil: 3rd century BC to 3rd century AD: Sangam poems Tolkāppiyam (grammar book) Korakkar(3rd century BC),Siddhar, Physician, Philosopher Bogar(3rd century BC)Siddhar, Physician, Yogi Agattiyam Hebrew: Ecclesiastes Greek: Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Callimachus (310/305-240 B.C.), lyric poet Manetho: Aegyptiaca Theocritus, lyric poet Latin: Lucius Livius Andronicus ( — ), translator, founder of Roman drama Gnaeus Naevius ( — 201 BC), dramatist, epic poet Titus Maccius Plautus ( — 184 BC), dramatist, composer of comedies: Poenulus, Miles Gloriosus, and other plays Quintus Fabius Pictor (3rd century BC), historian Lucius Cincius Alimentus (3rd century BC), military historian and antiquarian 2nd century BC Sanskrit Patanjali(Founder of Yoga School