6th century BC in poetry

Ancient Greece

Poets (by date of birth)

• Anacreon, Teos
• Xenophanes of Colophon
• Phocylides
• Simonides of Ceos
• Hipponax of Ephesus
• Aeschylus
• Pindar
• Bacchylides

• 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