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
• 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
• Alcaeus (born c. 620 in Mytilene)
• Sappho (c. 610 - 580 BCE)
• Callinus (c. 740 - c. 665 BC)
• Eumelus of Corinth (late 7th century BC)
• Tytaeus (c. 700 - c. 640 BC)

Works

• Odyssey

• Iliad

• Theogony

• Works and Days

• Homeric Hymns

• Aethiopis

• Little Iliad

• Iliou persis ("Sack of Troy")

• Nostoi

• Telegony

• Cypria

• Oedipodea

• Thbaida

• Epigoni

• Alkmaionis

Middle East

Poets

Works

• King Assurbanipal's library holds tablets that include versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh and En ma Elish

China

Poets (by date of birth)

• Lady Xu Mu

Works