Anybody know of a story(of any kind) before 476 A.D.?

Question

a myth or a moral stuff from like greek culture or roman culuture. I'll accept anything as long as its as old as 476 A.D.

Answer 1

It is difficult to put dates on some of this kind of stuff, but the great play writes of antiquity were Euripides, Sophocles, Phrynicus and Aeschylus, all of whom were writing aroung 500BC. For older stuff, you could read Homer's Illiad or Odessey which were between the 7th and 8th century BC. The plays will all most likely be 'tragedies' as comedy didn't really begin until the 440s.

Answer 2

The story of Siddhārtha Gautama, aka Buddha.

Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain; most modern historians by the end of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth date his lifetime from about 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but more recently the majority of scholars advocate dates around 410 or 400 for his passing away nirvana, though some leading scholars continue to maintain the earlier dates, while others argue for even later ones.

Gautama, also known as Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas”), is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules were summarized after his death and memorized by the sangha. Passed down by oral tradition, the Tripitaka, the collection of discourses attributed to Gautama, was committed to writing about 400 years later.

Answer 3

The poem "Theogony" by Hesiod was composed sometime around 700 BC.

It's a story with several threads about the creation and kinship of many Greek gods.

Around line 617 it includes a fascinating description of a three-part comet that past our world and then returned 10 years later striking our world and causing great destruction. Hesiod writes about it in mythic language and calls the parts of the comet Hecatonchires - or hundred handed ones - a reference to the innumerable pieces of gravel that the comet dumped on our world.

Answer 4

well, I cant realy give you something Greeko-Roman, but I can give you something christian.

Mary Magnalan is traveling the Mediterainean and she goes to Rome. There she meets the Emporer of Rome. She has an egg in her hand. She talks with the Emporer, trying to convert him and telling him of Jesus. He says to her "you savior can no more come back from the dead, then you can change the color of the egg your holding". But then as he says that the egg turns red.

Well there you go. And thats where easter eggs come from.

Answer 5

If you are looking for Roman-era morality fables, look up Aesop's fables. They were written pre-300 AD by Aesop, a Roman slave.

Answer 6

The Illiad, The odissy, by homer, the orestea by aeschelius

Answer 7

the story of Esther & the Jewish feast of Purim