9 events with tag "literature"
800 BC
ID: 5412
Homer describes wine culture - 'wine-dark sea,' proper mixing ratios, wine as civilized marker versus barbarism
ID: 5412
1010
ID: 5492
Lady Murasaki Shikibu completes Tale of Genji - world's first psychological novel
ID: 5492
1179
ID: 216
Snorri Sturluson born - will preserve Norse mythology in Prose Edda before Christianity erases it
ID: 216
1180
ID: 208
Chrétien de Troyes writes Arthurian romances - creates Lancelot, Holy Grail quest tradition
ID: 208
1200
ID: 5894
Siegfried hunts aurochs in Nibelungenlied - hero kills aurochs along with bears and lions, showing prowess
ID: 5894
1321
ID: 61
Dante completes Divine Comedy - medieval cosmology in vernacular poetry
ID: 61
1704
ID: 471
Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce publishes 'New Voyages' featuring Adario (based on Kondiaronk) critiquing European society
ID: 471
1721
ID: 484
Montesquieu publishes 'Persian Letters' using exotic outsider to critique European society
ID: 484
1811
ID: 701
Heinrich von Kleist publishes Prince of Homburg, defining Prussian literary romanticism
ID: 701