1st century in poetry

India

Poets (by date of birth)

• Thirukural (31-), Thiruvalluvar

Roman empire

Events

• 8 - Exile of Ovid: Ovid is banished for the remainder of his life to Tomis on the Black Sea by personal intervention of the Emperor Augustus

Poets (by date of birth)

• Ovid (43BCE-17)
• Columella (4-70), Cádiz?
• Persius (34-62), Etruscan
• Quintilian (35-95)
• Lucan (Nov. 3, 39 - Apr. 3, 65), Hispania Baetica
• Statius (45-96), Naples
• Martial (86-103), Hispania

Dates not known:

• Caesius Bassus (died in Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 (Aug. 24))
• Calpurnius, Sicily?
• Manilius
• Juvenal
• Sulpicia

Works

• Marcus Manilius (probable author), Astronomica (c. 10-20)
• Ovid, Tristia (c. 9-12) and Epistulae ex Ponto (c. 13-16)
• Statius, Thebaid (c. 90), Silvae (c. 93–96) and Achilleid (c. 94–96, unfinished)

China

Poets (by date of birth)

• Zhang Heng (78-139), Eastern Han
• Ban Gu (32-92)

Decades and years

References