Authors listed chronologically

The Classical Age

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Homer (ca.800BC)
Hesiod (ca.700BC)
Aesop (620 - 560 BC)
Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 BC)
Euripides (480 or 484-406 BC)
Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC - 385 BC)
Confucius (551-479 BCE)
Lao Tzu (4thC BCE)
Herodotus (485-420BCE)
Hippocrates (460 - 377 BCE)
Thucydides (ca. 460 BCE)
Apollonius of Rhodes, 3rd C. BCE
Xenophon (431- c. 360 BC)
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC)
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
Euclid (taught c. 300 BC)
Epicurus (c340-c270BC)
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Apollonius of Perga (fl 250-220 BC)
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Catullus (c.84 B.C. - c.54 B.C.)
Virgil (70-19 BC)
Horace, 65-8 BCE
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 BC - 43 BC)
Lucretius (98? - 55 BC)
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Petronius, c.27-66
Livy (59 BC-17 C.E.)
Seneca, L. Annaeus (ca. 3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
Epictetus (ca. 55-135 AD)
Tacitus, Cornelius (circa AD 56 - circa AD 120)
Pliny, the Younger (62-c. 114)
Plutarch, 46-120
Apuleius, c. 123/125-c. 180
Lucian of Samosata, 120-180
Marcus Aurelius, 121-180
Galen, 131-201
Plotinus, 205-270
Augustine of Hippo, 354-430
Fa-Hien or Fa-hsien (ca.337-ca.422)
Boethius, d. 524

The "Dark Age"

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Beowulf (ca.800)
The Mabinogion (ca.1000)
Firdausi (c.934 - 1020)
Omar Khayyám, 1048-1122
Saadi (1184-1283/1291?)

Renaissance

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Dante (1265 - 1321)
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca.1343-1400)

Malory, Thomas, 1430-1471

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533
Rabelais, Francois, 1494?-1553?

Spenser, Edmund, 1552-1599
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Donne, John, 1572-1631
Jonson, Ben, 1573-1637

Cervantes, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639
Webster, John, c.1580-c.1634
Ford, John, 1586-ca.1640
Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
The King James Bible
Bury, Richard de, 1281-1345
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466-1536
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543
More, Thomas, 1478-1535
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Gilbert, William, 1540-1603
Davis, John, 1543-1605
Hakluyt, Richard (c.1552-1616)
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640
Harvey, William, 1578-1657
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679

The Age of Enlightenment

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Milton, John, 1608-1674
Molière, 1622-1673
Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689
Barker, Jane, 1652-1732
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Gay, John, 1685-1732
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
Voltaire, 1694-1778
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Cleland, John, 1709-1789
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
Cao Xueqin (ca. 1717-1763)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Smollett, Tobias, 1721-1771
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774
Parsons, Eliza, 1739-1811
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823
Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849
Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Christiaan Huygens, 1629-1693
Benedict de Spinoza, 1632-1677
Locke, John, 1632-1704
Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1646-1716
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Hume, David, 1711-1776
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Blackstone, William, 1723-1780
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Boswell, James, 1740-1795

Revolution & Romanticism

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Stendhal, 1783-1842
Grimm, Jakob, 1785-1863
Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859
Byron, George, 1788-1824
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Keats, John, 1795-1821
Polidori, John, 1795-1821
Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851
"Barnes, William, 1801-1886
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1803-1873
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 1744-1829
Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823
Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826
Godwin, William, 1756-1836
Tench, Watkin, 1758-1833
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Malthus, Thomas, 1766-1834
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
Trollope, Fanny, 1780-1863
Quincey, Thomas de, 1785-1859
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860
Blaxland, Gregory, 1771-1853
Park, Mungo, 1771-1806
Oxley, John, 1783-1828
Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817
Mitchell, Thomas, 1792-1855
Sturt, Charles, 1795-1869
Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
Richardson, James, 1806-1851

Realism -- Naturalism -- Symbolism

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
Pushkin, Aleksandr, 1799-1837
Dumas, Alexandre, père, 1802-1870
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Sand, George, 1804-1876
Tucker, James, 1803-1866
Gogol, Nikolai, 1809-1852
Tennyson, Alfred, 1809-1892
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 1810-1865
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
Browning, Robert, 1812–1889
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873
Lermontov, Mikhail, 1814-1841
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848
Turgenev, Ivan, 1818-1883
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Bronte, Anne, 1820-1849
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Dumas, Alexandre, fils, 1824-1895
MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
Blackmore, R. D., 1825-1900
Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915
Meredith, George, 1828-1909
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883
Gaboriau, Émile, 1833-1873
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
Hudson, William Henry, 1841-1922
James, Henry, 1843-1916
France, Anatole, 1844-1924
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Clarke, Marcus, 1846-1881
Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Borrow, George, 1803-1881
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901
Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Carron, William, 1821-1876
Lister, Joseph, 1827-1912
Burton, Isabel, 1831-1896
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899
Giles, Ernest, 1835-1897
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Abbott, Edwin A., 1838-1926
Stanley, Henry Morton, 1841-1904
Jardine, Frank, 1841-1919 and Alexander

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Bird, Isabella L., 1831-1904
Beeton, Isabella, 1836-1865
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Banfield, Edmund James, 1852-1923

The Age of Uncertainty

Literature Philosophy/Science/History Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920
Haggard, Henry Rider, 1856-1925
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924
Cholmondeley, Mary, 1859-1925
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952
Housman, A. E., 1859-1936
Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932
Jerome, Jerome K., 1859-1927
Chekhov, Anton, 1860-1904
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936
Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Wells, H. G., 1866-1946
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946
Saki, 1870-1916
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Hodgson, William Hope, 1877-1918
Eddison, E.R. (Eric Rücker), 1882-1945
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Merritt, Abraham, 1882-1943
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
apek, Karel, 1890-1938
Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Lyell, Charles, 1797-1875
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
James, William, 1842-1910
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900

Frazer, Sir James George, 1854-1941
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928
Shackleton, Ernest, 1874-1922
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946
Lawrence, T. E., 1888-1935