6th century BC in poetry

Ancient Greece

Poets (by date of birth)

• Anacreon (c. 570–c.485 BCE), Teos
• Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–c.478 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 (b. c. 507 BCE)

Dates unknown:

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

Works

• Ode to Polycrates

Middle East

Poets

• Jeremiah of Anathoth, writing in Hebrew

Works

• Psalms
• Book of Jeremiah
• Book of Lamentations

China

Poets (by date of birth)

Works

India

Poets

• Approximate date of Vyasa

Works

• Approximate date of the Mahabharata

References