7th century BC in poetry

India

Poets

• Approximate date of Valmiki

  Works

• Approximate date of the Ramayana

  Ancient Greece

Poets (by date of birth)

• Homer, born near or before the beginning of the century
• Hesiod, born near or before the beginning of the century in Boeotia
• Callinus
• Tyrtaeus
• Archilochus of Paros
• Alcman
• Semonides
• Solon
• Mimnermus of Colophon
• Stesichorus, Himera, Sicily
• Sappho
• Alcaeus
• Eumelus of Corinth

  Works

• Odyssey
• Iliad
• Theogony
• Works and Days
• Homeric Hymns
• Aethiopis
• Little Iliad
• Iliou persis
• Nostoi
• Telegony
• Cypria
• Oedipodea
• Thebaid
• Epigoni
• Alcmeonis

  Middle East

Poets

Works

• King Assurbanipal's library holds tablets that include versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh and Enûma Elish

  China

Poets (by date of birth)

• Lady Xu Mu

  Works