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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.

300–201 BC

The Third Century BC

1 work

c. 275 BC

Greek

The Phaenomena

Aratus of Soli · c. 315 – c. 240 BC

A didactic poem mapping the constellations and the signs of weather, opening not with the stars but with Zeus — every street and every market full of him, every harbour and sea, and we all have need of him always, for we are also his offspring.

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