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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

400–301 BC

The Fourth Century BC

1 work

c. 320 BC; survives in fragments

Greek

Thais

Menander of Athens · c. 342 – c. 291 BC

A lost play of the New Comedy, named for its courtesan and known from scattered lines. One of them became a proverb long before Paul reached for it: bad company corrupts good character.

Greco-Roman · Comedy1 CorinthiansRead elsewhere