1st century BC in poetry

Roman republic/Roman empire

Poets (by date of birth)

• Lucretius
• Catullus
• Virgil
• Gallus, Egypt
• Horace
• Tibullus
• Propertius, Bevagna
• Ovid

• Sulpicia - the only woman poet of Ancient Rome whose works survive
• Meleager of Gadara

  Works

• Meleager of Gadara gathers an anthology of short poems and epigrams that would become the basis for the Greek Anthology

  South Asia

Works

• The Pali Canon is first written down
• The Tolkappiyam, a Tamil grammar written in verse

  China

Poets (by year of birth)

• Yang Xiong

  Korea

Poets (by year of birth)

• Yuri of Goguryeo,