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This list of ancient Greek poets covers poets writing in the ancient Greek language, regardless of location or nationality of the poet. For a list of modern-day Greek poets, see List of Greek poets.

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  • Adrianus (poet), wrote an epic poem on the history of Alexander the Great, of which only one line is extant.
  • Aeschylus /ˈɛskələs/ (Greek: Αἰσχύλος, 525–456 BC), earliest of the three surviving Classical Athenian tragedians.
  • Aeschylus of Alexandria, epic poet, 2nd century
  • Agathon (Greek Ἀγάθων) (c. 448–400 BC)
  • Agathyllus (Gr. Ἀγάθυλλος) elegiac poet from Arcadia, who is quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in reference to the history of Aeneas and the foundation of Rome.
  • Alcaeus of Mytilene (c. 620 BC – 6th century BC), lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse
  • Alcman (also Alkman, Greek Ἀλκμάν, 7th century BC) choral lyric poet from Sparta; earliest representative of the Alexandrinian canon of the Nine lyric poets.
  • Alexander Aetolus of Pleuron in Aetolia, poet and man of letters, the only representative of Aetolian poetry, flourished about 280 BC
  • Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century BC.
  • Alexis (c. 375 BC – c. 275 BC), comic poet of the Middle Comedy, born at Thurii and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen
  • Amphis was an Athenian comic poet of uncertain origin from approximately the 4th century BC

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  • Bacchylides lyric poet born at Iulis, on the island of Ceos; Eusebius says he flourished in 467 BC
  • Besantinus Roman-era poet
  • Bianor (poet) author of 22 epigrams from the Greek Anthology
  • Bion of Smyrna bucolic poet born at Phlossa near Smyrna; flourished 100 BC
  • Boeo author of a hymn about the founding of the temple of Apollo at Delphi
  • Burtas (Βούρτας), a poet of uncertain age, wrote in elegiac verse an account of early Roman history[1]

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  • Callimachus (Greek: Καλλίμαχος; c. 305 BC – c. 240 BC), poet and critic; native of Cyrene and scholar of the Library of Alexandria
  • Callinus (also known as Kallinus) of Ephesus in Asia Minor, flourished mid-7th century BC; the earliest known Greek elegiac poet
  • Chaeremon Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BC generally considered a tragic poet
  • Charixene
  • Chersias of Orchomenus, archaic epic
  • Choerilus (tragic poet) Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC
  • Choerilus of Iasus, epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC.
  • Choerilus of Samos, epic poet of Samos, who flourished at the end of the 5th century BC
  • Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon, a legendary early Greek poet sometimes called the author of the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony; Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3 BC
  • Cleanthes (c. 330 BC – c. 230 BC)
  • Cleitagora Spartan woman poet mentioned by Aristophanes and Cratinus
  • Cleobulina daughter of Cleobulus, known for her riddles
  • Cleobulus sixth century BC poet, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
  • Cleophon (poet) (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn), Athenian tragic poet who flourished in the 4th century BC
  • Corinna (or Korinna) poet traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC
  • Cratinus poet of Old Comedy
  • Cratinus the Younger poet of Middle Comedy
  • Creophylus of Samos (in Greek Kreophylos) legendary early Greek singer, native to Samos or Chios, said to have been a contemporary of Homer
  • Crobylus possible Middle Comedian, lived some time after 324 BC
  • Crinagoras of Mytilene (70 BC – 18 AD)
  • Cyclic poets
  • Cynaethus (late 6th century BC)

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  • Diagoras the Atheist of Melos, poet and sophist of the 5th century BC
  • Dionysius Chalcus (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Χαλκοῦς) an ancient Athenian poet and orator

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  • Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC), poet apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious (lost) sex manual.
  • Epicharmus of Kos flourished sometime between c. 540 and c. 450 BC; a dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comic writers.
  • Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) (Greek: Ἐπιμενίδης), a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet.
  • Erinna, female contemporary and friend of Sappho; a native of Rhodes, Telos or Tenos; flourished about 600 BC.
  • Eubulus (poet), Athenian Middle Comedy poet, flourished 370s and 360s BC.
  • Eugammon of Cyrene
  • Eumelus of Corinth
  • Euphorion of Chalcis (3rd century BC)
  • Eupolis (c. 446 BC – c. 411 BC)
  • Euripides (c. 480 BC – c. 406 BC), one of the three surviving Classical Athenian tragedians, with 18 (possibly 19) surviving plays.
  • Evenus of Paros (5th century BC)

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  • Ibycus (Ἴβυκος), lyric poet of Rhegium in Italy, contemporary of Anacreon, flourished in the 6th century BC; one of the Nine lyric poets
  • Ion of Chios (c. 490/480 BC – c. 420 BC) dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher, contemporary of Euripides
  • Iophon (flourished 428 BC–405 BC), tragic poet, son of Sophocles
  • Isyllus poet whose name was rediscovered in the course of excavations on the site of the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, where an inscription was found engraved on stone, consisting of 72 lines of verse and preceded by two lines of prose giving this author's name

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  • Lasus, lyric poet of the 6th century BC
  • Lesches, a semi-legendary poet and reputed author of the Little Iliad; traditionally a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos; flourished about 660 BC (according to others, about 50 years earlier)
  • Likymnios of Chios, dithyrambic poet, probably 4th century BC
  • Lycophron, Hellenistic tragic poet

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  • Olen (poet), early poet from Lycia who went to Delos
  • Onomacritus, (c. 530 – 480 BC), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, a chresmologue, or compiler of oracles
  • Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now generally regarded as two:
    • Oppian of Corycus (or Anabarzus) in Cilicia, who flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius
    • Oppian of Apamea (or Pella) in Syria. His extant poem on hunting (Cynegetica) is dedicated to the emperor Caracalla, so that it must have been written after 211
  • Oroebantius of Troezena

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  • Rhyanus poet and grammarian, native of Crete, friend and contemporary of Eratosthenes (275—195 BC)
  • Rufinus (poet), epigrammatist

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  • Sannyrion, Athenian comic poet of the late 5th century BC.
  • Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφώ, Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω), lyric poet born on the island of Lesbos in the late 7th century BC; died in 570 BC.
  • Semonides iambic poet, flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC, native of Samos.
  • Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 BC–469 BC), lyric poet born at Ioulis on Kea; named one of the Nine lyric poets.
  • Solon (Greek: Σόλων, c. 638 BC–558 BC. Pronounced sŏ'lōn), famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet.
  • Sophocles (c. 497/6 BC – winter 406/5 BC), one of the three surviving Classical Athenian tragedians, with 7 surviving works.
  • Sositheus (fl. c. 280 BC)
  • Sotades (3rd century BC)
  • Stasinus
  • Stesichorus (c. 630 BC – 555 BC)
  • Susarion (fl. early 6th century BC)
  • Syagrus (poet)

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  • Xenocles, (Ξενοκλής), or Zenocles, tragedian, flourished 415 BC
  • Xenokleides, 4th century BC Athenian poet
  • Xenophanes (c. 570 BC – c. 478 BC), philosopher and poet from Colophon

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References

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  1. ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
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