Editing 1st millennium BC (section)

===Literature===
{{main|Ancient literature}}
{{see|List_of_languages_by_first_written_accounts#First_millennium_BC}}
;Greco-Roman literature
{{main|Greek literature|Latin literature}}
Archaic period
*[[Homer]] (late 8th or early 7th c.), ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]''
*[[Hesiod]] (8th to 7th c.), ''[[Theogony]]'' and ''[[Works and Days]]''
*[[Archilochus]] (7th century), Greek poet
*[[Sappho]], (late 7th to early 6th c.), Greek poet
* [[Ibycus]]
* [[Alcaeus of Mytilene]]
* [[Aesop's Fables]]
Classical period
*[[Aeschylus]] (c. 525–455 BC), Greek playwright
*[[Herodotus]] (484–425 BC), ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]''
*[[Euripides]] (c. 480–406 BC), Greek playwright
* [[Xenophon]]: ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]'', ''[[Cyropaedia (Xenophon)|Cyropaedia]]''
*[[Aristotle]] (384–322 BC), [[corpus Aristotelicum]]
Hellenistic to Roman period
* [[Septuagint]]
* [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]: ''[[Argonautica]]''
* [[Callimachus]] (310/305-240 B.C.), lyric poet
* [[Manetho]]: ''[[Aegyptiaca]]''
* [[Theocritus]], lyric poet
* [[Euclid]]: ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]''
* [[Menander]]: ''[[Dyskolos]]''
* [[Theophrastus]]: ''[[Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus)|Enquiry into Plants]]''
* [[Old Latin]] [[Livius Andronicus]], [[Gnaeus Naevius]], [[Plautus]], [[Quintus Fabius Pictor]], [[Lucius Cincius Alimentus]] 
* Classical Latin: [[Cicero]], [[Julius Caesar]], [[Virgil]], [[Lucretius]], [[Livy]], [[Catullus]]

;Chinese literature
{{main|Chinese literature}}
*''[[I Ching]]'' (date unknown, between the 10th and 4th centuries BC)
* ''[[Book of Songs (Chinese)|Classic of Poetry]] (Shījīng)'', ''[[Shujing|Classic of Documents]] (Shūjīng)'' (authentic portions), ''[[I Ching|Classic of Changes]] (I Ching)''
* ''[[Spring and Autumn Annals]] (Chūnqiū)'' (722–481 BC, chronicles of the state of [[Lu (state)|Lu]])
* [[Confucius]]: ''[[Analects]] (Lúnyǔ)''
* ''[[Book of Rites|Classic of Rites]] (Lǐjì)''
* ''[[Zuo Zhuan|Commentaries of Zuo]] (Zuǒzhuàn)''
* [[Laozi]] (or Lao Tzu): ''[[Tao Te Ching]]''
* [[Zhuang Zhou|Zhuangzi]]: ''[[Zhuangzi (book)]]''
* [[Mencius]]: ''[[Mencius (book)|Mencius]]''

;Sanskrit literature
{{main|Sanskrit literature}}
*[[Vedic Sanskrit]]: [[Veda]]s, [[Brahmana]]s
*[[Vedanga]]
*[[Mukhya Upanishads]]
*Early layers of the [[Sanskrit epics]] (c. 3rd century BC to 4th century AD)

;Hebrew 
{{main|Ancient Hebrew writings|Hebrew Bible}}
* c. 8th to 7th c.: the [[Book of Nahum]], [[Book of Hosea]], [[Book of Amos]], [[Book of Isaiah]]
* c. 6th c.: [[Psalms]]
* c. 5th century: redaction of the [[Torah]]
* 3rd century: [[Ecclesiastes]]
* 2nd century: [[Book of Wisdom]]

;Avestan
* ''[[Yasht]]'', [[Avesta]], [[Vendidad]]

;Other (2nd to 1st century BC)
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*[[Pali literature]]: [[Tipitaka]]
*Tamil:[[Sangam literature]]
*Aramaic: [[Book of Daniel]]