Statistics for Ancient and Early Literature and Books

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When	Hint	Answer	% Correct
8th century BC	One of two major epic poems attributed to Homer	Iliad	92%
8th century BC	One of two major epic poems attributed to Homer	Odyssey	92%
700–1000	Old English epic poem written by anonymous author	Beowulf	81%
5th century BC	Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu	The Art of War	74%
6th century BC	Greek collection including "The Tortoise and the Hare"	Aesop's Fables	73%
2250–1700 BC	Epic poem from Mesopotamia	Epic of Gilgamesh	73%
1st century AD	Roman poet who wrote Metamorphoses	Ovid	70%
6th century BC	Lyric poet from the island of Lesbos	Sappho	69%
29 and 19 BC	Roman poet who wrote the epic Aeneid	Virgil	65%
2nd–3rd century	Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment	Kama Sutra	64%
5th century BC	Playwright of Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra	Sophocles	62%
4th century BC	Plato's best-known work: Socratic dialogue about justice and order	Republic	53%
4th century	This Christian theologian writes Confessions.	Augustine of Hippo	49%
4th century BC	This Greek mathematician writes Elements	Euclid	49%
1500 BC	Egyptian funerary text	Book of the Dead	45%
2nd century	Stoic philosopher who wrote Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	44%
5th century BC	Playwright of The Frogs, The Birds, The Wasps	Aristophanes	36%
9th century BC	Chinese divination text	Classic of Changes (I Ching)	27%
4th century BC	Classic Chinese text written by Laozi	Tao Te Ching	17%
8th century BC	Foundational Hindu texts, most recent of the Vedas	Upanishads	17%
385 BC	Philosophical text by Plato: Contest of speeches by men at a banquet	Symposium	16%