3rd century BC in poetry

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Centuries in poetry:	4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
Decades in poetry:	90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 00s
Centuries:	4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC

NOTE THAT DATES IN THIS PERIOD ARE OFTEN ESTIMATED OR DISPUTED

Contents 1 Mediterranean World 1.1 Poets (by date of birth) 1.2 Works 2 China 2.1 Poets (by date of birth) 2.2 Works

[edit] Mediterranean World

[edit] Poets (by date of birth)

• Appolonius of Rhodes (c. 295 - after 246 BCE), Greek
• Ennius (239 - 169 BCE), Salento, Latin
  

Date unknown:

• Herodas, Greek
• Theocritus, Greek

[edit] Works

• Likely date for the Book of Job, written in Hebrew

[edit] China

[edit] Poets (by date of birth)

• Song Yu, Chu

[edit] Works

• Chu Ci, the second great anthology of early Chinese poetry