6th century BC in poetry

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Centuries in poetry:	7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
Decades in poetry:	90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 00s
Centuries:	7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC

NOTE THAT DATES IN THIS PERIOD ARE OFTEN ESTIMATED OR DISPUTED

Contents 1 Ancient Greece 1.1 Poets (by date of birth) 1.2 Works 2 Middle East 2.1 Poets 2.2 Works 3 China 3.1 Poets (by date of birth) 3.2 Works 4 South Asia 4.1 Poets 4.2 Works

[edit] Ancient Greece

[edit] Poets (by date of birth)

• Anacreon (c. 570 BCE), Teos
• Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 - 480 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 (born c. 507 BCE)

Dates unknown:

• Ibycus, flourished in Rhegium
• Aesop
• Theognis of Megara
• Corinna

[edit] Works

[edit] Middle East

[edit] Poets

• Jeremiah of Anathoth, writing in Hebrew

[edit] Works

• Psalms
• Book of Jeremiah
• Book of Lamentations

[edit] China

[edit] Poets (by date of birth)

[edit] Works

[edit] South Asia

[edit] Poets

• Approximate date of Vyasa

[edit] Works

• Approximate date of the Mahabharata