3rd century BC in poetry

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

Mediterranean World

Poets (by date of birth)

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

Date unknown:

Works

Likely date for the Book of Job, written in Hebrew

China

Poets (by date of birth)

Song Yu, Chu

Works

Chu Ci, the second great anthology of early Chinese poetry