1. Ancient Greek literature: from the 8th century BC to the 4th century BC, including Homer's epic, ancient Greek tragedy and comedy.
2. Ancient Roman literature: from 3rd century BC to 6th century AD, including Virgil's Aeneas, Ovid's Metamorphosis and seneca's plays.
3. Ancient Indian literature: from 1500 BC to 5th century AD, including epics and myths, such as Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata.
4. Ancient literature in China: from BC 165438 to the 7th century, including poems, philosophies and essays such as The Book of Songs, The Songs of Chu, The Analects of Confucius and Zhuangzi.
5. Ancient Japanese literature: from the 8th century A.D. to the 4th century A.D./KLOC-0, including poems and novels such as Ye Wan Collection, Song Collection of Ancient and Modern Harmony and Tales of Genji.
6. Ancient English literature: from the 5th century to the late Middle Ages, including Beowulf, Canterbury Tales and Shakespeare's plays.
7. Ancient German literature: from the 8th century to18th century, including Song of Nibelungen, Dance of Death and Poems of Godel.
Generally speaking, the time span of foreign ancient literature is very extensive, and there are different literary works and schools from BC to the late Middle Ages. These works have an important position and influence in the history of world literature.