The Ramayana (In Our Time)
500 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic which is regarded as one of the greatest works of world literature. Its importance in Indian culture has been compared to that of the Iliad and Odyssey in the West, and it’s still seen as a sacred text by Hindus today. Written in Sanskrit, it tells the story of the legendary prince and prin
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Around 500 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)