6th century BC in poetry

Centuries in poetry:	7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
Decades in poetry:	90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 00s
Centuries:	7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC

NOTE THAT DATES IN THIS PERIOD ARE OFTEN ESTIMATED OR DISPUTED

Ancient Greece

Poets (by date of birth)

• Anacreon (c. 570 BCE), Teos
• Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 - 480 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 (born c. 507 BCE)

Dates unknown:

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

Sappho

Middle East

Poets

• Jeremiah of Anathoth, writing in Hebrew

Works

• Psalms
• Book of Jeremiah
• Book of Lamentations

India

Poets

• Approximate date of Vyasa

Works

• Approximate date of the Mahabharata