India
Poets Approximate date of Valmiki
Works Approximate date of the Ramayana
Ancient Greece
Poets (by date of birth) Homer, born near or before the beginning of the century Hesiod, born near or before the beginning of the century in Boeotia Callinus (c. 740 - c. 665 BC) Tyrtaeus (c. 700 - c. 640 BC) Archilochus of Paros (born c. 700) Alcman (dates unknown) Semonides Solon (ca. 638–558 BCE) Mimnermus of Colophon (fl. 630-600) Stesichorus (640 - 555 BCE), Himera, Sicily Sappho (c. 630 - 570 BCE) Alcaeus (born c. 620 in Mytilene) Eumelus of Corinth (late 7th century BC)
Works Odyssey Iliad Theogony Works and Days Homeric Hymns Aethiopis [fragments] Little Iliad [fragments] Iliou persis ("Sack of Troy") [fragments] Nostoi [fragments] Telegony [fragments] Cypria [fragments] Oedipodea [fragments] Thebaid [fragments] Epigoni [fragments] Alcmeonis (fragments)
Middle East
Poets
Works King Assurbanipal's library holds tablets that include versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh and Enûma Elish
China
Poets (by date of birth) Lady Xu Mu
Works
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