Ancient literature

Works written by ancient Greek and Roman authors have made a major impact on the world’s culture and society. They profoundly shaped medieval thought, as you can discover in Cillian O’Hogan’s article The Classical Past on the Polonsky England and France 700-1200 project website. Compared to their afterlife and significance,...

The Vedas are the sacred scriptures of Hinduism and are regarded as the oldest religious texts in the world. Thought to have been composed at least 3,500 years ago, the Vedas are a collection of hymns, magical incantations, dramatic mythological accounts, and sacred formulas for enlightenment.

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Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael.

These texts are much older than the surviving manuscripts and have a life of their own. Ancient literature constitutes a complex representation of that society and a refracted image of the past. These texts cover a wide range of topics, including mythology, philosophy, science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, politics, economics, poetry, drama, and more. The sources of ancient Indian literature can be broadly classified categories into oral tradition and written texts.

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