TABLE V.
Reading edition
Showing the Distribution of the Best Literature in Time and Space, with a Parallel Reference to some of the World's Great Events.
[It was impossible to get the writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the unit space. The former fills a space twice the unit width, and the latter, when it is complete, will require five units.]
Greece B.C. 1000 Israel David, The Psalms
900
800 Rome founded
Æsop 700
B.C. 600 India Budha Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon Republic established at Rome
The Golden Age of Grecian Literature Pindar Æschylus Herodotus Sophocles Thucydides Pericles Euripides Xenophon Aristophanes Socrates 500 Mahabharata Ramayana (Epics of India) Darius, king of Persia Greece Battle of Marathon Battle of Thermopylæ Battle of Salamis Cincinnatus at Rome Ezra at Jerusalem
Plato Aristotle Demosthenes 400 Alexander The Gauls burn Rome
300 Wars of Rome against Carthage Hannibal in Italy
200 Greece becomes a Roman Province Rome The Gracchi, Marius, and Sylla
Rome. Augustan Age, 31 b. c. to a. d. 14. Reatinus Ovid Sallust Livy Cicero Lucretius Virgil 100 Rome Julius Cæsar Pompey Civil War, Empire established
Tacitus Plutarch Juvenal Pliny A.D. Josephus Jerusalem taken by Titus Pompeii overwhelmed Romans conquer Britain
Epictetus Marcus Aurelius 100 Church Fathers
200 Aurelian conquers Zenobia
300 Under Constantine Christianity becomes the State religion Roman Empire divided
400 Angles and Saxons drive out the Britons Huns under Attila invade the Roman Empire
500 Christianity carried to England by Augustine
English Literature Cædmon 600 Arabia Mahomet
Bæda Cynewulfda 700 France Charlemagne founds the Empire of the West
Ælfred, 850-900 800 Danes overrun England Ælfred's glorious reign
900 Chivalry begins Capetian kings in France England Saint Dunstan Papal supremacy
1000 Persia Firdusi's Shah Nameh Chivalry begins Capetian kings in France England Canute the Great 1066. Norman Conquest Peter the Hermit First Crusade
Geoffrey of Monmouth 1100 Persia Omar Khayyám Germany Nibelungenlied Spain Chronicle of the Cid England Plantagenets Richard I. France Second and Third Crusades Saint Bernard
Layamon Roger Bacon 1200 Persia Saadi England 1215. Runnymede, Magna Charta Edward I.
Mandeville Langland Wycliffe Chaucer Gower 1300 Italy Dante Petrarch Boccaccio Persia Hafiz England Chivalry at its height The Black Prince Gunpowder France Battles of Crecy, Poictiers, and Agincourt
Lydgate Fortescue Malory 1400 Germany Thomas à Kempis Arabian Nights (probably) Persia Jami England Henry VIII. shook off the Pope Movable Type Discovery of America Joan of Arc Wars of the Roses
More Ascham Lyly Sackville Sidney Marlowe Fox Spenser Hooker 1500 Italy Ariosto Tasso Galileo France Montaigne Copernicus Kepler The Armada England Henry VIII., Elizabeth Germany 1515. Luther's Reformation France Massacre of St. Bartholomew
Jonson Bacon Herbert Shakspeare Newton J.Taylor Chapman Hobbes Beaumont & Fletcher Walton Milton Locke S. Butler Bunyan Pepys Dryden 1600 Spain. Cervantes Calderon Germany Kepler France Descartes Corneille Racine Molière La Fontain 1620. Plymouth Rock and the "Mayflower" 1649 Cromwell 1660 Restoration 1688 Revolution William and Mary France. Louis XIV.
Addison Cowper Otis Steele Burns Jay Pope Rogers Adams Defoe Hume Hamilton Swift Edwards Madison Berkeley A. Smith Jefferson J. Butler Bentham Pitt Moore Gibbon Burke Thomson Johnson Fox Young Boswell Erskine Gray Malthus P. Henry. Goldsmith Mackintosh Sterne Paine 1700 France Montesquieu Le Sage Rousseau Voltaire Germany Munchausen Lessing 1776. American Revolution 1789-94. French Revolution England Marlborough
Scott Herschel DeQuincey Byron Whewell Whately Bryant Ricardo Jeffrey Drake Carey Brougham Wordsworth Faraday S. Smith Keats Lyell C. North Shelley Agassiz N. Webster Payne Whitney H. H. White Keble A. Gray D. Webster Halleck Hallam Sparks Key Prescott Story Macaulay Lewes Gould Hood Milman Cooper Poe Buckle Disraeli Read Merivale Dickens Tennyson Hildreth Thackeray Browning Freeman Bronté Lowell Draper Hawthorne Longfellow Froude Irving Carleton Walpole Hughes Ingelow Lecky Kingsley Whittier Parkman Eliot Mill Bancroft Collins Spencer Whipple Macdonald Ruskin Twain Hunt Arnold Jerrold Wallace Curtis Choate Clarke Holmes Lincoln Landor Mansel Phillips Tourgée Carlyle Everett Holland Emerson Sumner Howells Darwin Garfield Mrs. Whitney Huxley Gladstone Miss Alcott Dana A. D. White Bellamy Tyndall Beecher Gronlund Lubbock P. Brooks Gilman Proctor Lamb Holley Davy Hazlitt Dodge Proctor Lamb Jewett Davy Hazlitt Burroughs Bright Rives Stowe Fiske Aldrich Hearn Curtin Warner Burnett Hale Curtis Edwards Higginson 1800 Germany Schiller Goethe Kant Fichte Hegel Schelling Niebuhr Schlosser Heine Haeckel Helmholtz Grimm Froebel France La Place Guizot De Tocqueville Comte Hugo Dumas Balzac Renan Taine Russia Pushkin Lermontoff Bashkirtseff Tolstoi Denmark Andersen Poland Sienkiewicz 1807. Fulton's Steamboat Wellington 1815. Waterloo 1815. White wives sold in England 1830. Passenger railway 1833. Matches 1844. Telegraph 1845. Mexican War 1860. Rebellion 1863. Emancipation 1870. Franco-German War 1874. The Telephone Emancipation of serfs in Russia
1900