Ancient Greece
Poets (by date of birth) Anacreon (c. 570–c.485 BCE), Teos Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–c.478 BCE) Phocylides (b. c. 560 BCE) Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–469 BCE) Hipponax of Ephesus (fl. 540 BCE) Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Pindar (c. 522/518 in Cynoscephalae – 443 BCE in Argos) Bacchylides (b. c. 507 BCE)
Dates unknown: Ibycus, flourished in Rhegium Aesop Theognis of Megara Corinna
Works Ode to Polycrates
Middle East
Poets Jeremiah of Anathoth, writing in Hebrew
Works Psalms Book of Jeremiah Book of Lamentations
China
Poets (by date of birth)
Works
India
Poets Approximate date of Vyasa
Works Approximate date of the Mahabharata
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