Early Satirical Authors
- Aesop (c. 620–560 BCE) - Fables
- Aristophanes (c. 448–380 BCE) The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
- Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE) - Books
- Horace (65-8 BCE) - Sermones
- Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) - The Art of Love
- Persius (34-62 CE) - Satires
- Petronius (c. 27-66 CE) - Satyricon
- Juvenal (1st to early 2nd centuries CE) - Satires
- Lucian (c. 120–180 CE)
- Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE) - The Golden Ass
- Various Authors (9th century CE and later) - One Thousand and One Nights
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