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An original text or artifact produced within the tradition or period under study. It offers direct evidence for language, practice, and belief, and is the basis for later interpretation and transmission.

The Iliad
Homer • Greek

The Odyssey
Homer • Greek

Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni • Mesopotamian

Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian

Ramayana
Valmiki • Indian

Rigveda
Anonymous • Indian

Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic

Enuma Elish
Anonymous • Mesopotamian

Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman

One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous • Arabic

The Aeneid
Virgil • Roman

Book of the Dead
Anonymous • Egyptian

Beowulf
Anonymous • Germanic

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek

Oresteia
Aeschylus • Greek

Popol Vuh
Anonymous • Mesoamerican

Kojiki
O no Yasumaro • East Asian

Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri • East Asian

Antigone
Sophocles • Greek

Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek

Theogony
Hesiod • Greek

Baal Cycle
Anonymous • Levantine

Atrahasis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian

The Descent of Inanna
Anonymous • Mesopotamian