Can you name the literature from the 'Theocratic Age' of Harold Bloom's Western Canon?

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  • This is the first chronological age of Harold Bloom's western literary canon, spanning everything before Dante (b. 1265). For some works, the author is not known, and Bloom categorizes them by region.
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Author/RegionWork
The Ancient Near East
The Ancient Near East
The Ancient Near East
The Ancient Near East
The Ancient Near East
Ancient India
Ancient India
Ancient India
Homer
Homer
Hesiod
Hesiod
Archilochos
Sappho
Alkman
Pindar
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Sophocles
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Author/RegionWork
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Euripides
Herodotus
Thucydides
Heraclitus
Empedocles
Plato
Aristotle
Aristotle
Menander
Longinus
Callimachus
Theocritus
Plutarch
Plutarch
Aesop
Lucian
Plautus
Plautus
Plautus
Plautus
Terence
Terence
Terence
Lucretius
Cicero
Author/RegionWork
Horace
Persius
Catullus
Catullus
Virgil
Virgil
Virgil
Lucan
Ovid
Ovid
Ovid
Ovid
Juvenal
Martial
Seneca
Seneca
Petronius
Apuleius
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Later Near East
Later Near East
Old Norse
Snorri Sturluson
Middle High German
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Chrétien de Troyes
Old English
Middle Spanish
Christine de Pizan
Diego de San Pedro
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