This document lists authors and their famous works, including Dante Alighieri who wrote The Divine Comedy, William Shakespeare who wrote plays such as Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth, and Jane Austen who wrote Pride and Prejudice. It also discusses epic poems such as the Mahabharata and Gilgamesh, influential religious texts like the King James Bible, and mythology figures like Zeus and Prometheus from Greek mythology. Finally, it provides brief descriptions of various writing systems from different ancient cultures.