Brief Guide to Greek and Latin Poets, BCE

A Brief Guide to Greek and Roman Poets (8th-1st centuries BCE)
All links are to the Perseus Project Encyclopedia

c. BCE		Epic		Tragedy		Comedy		Lyric / Elegy
8th		Homer
		Hesiod
7th								Archilochus
								Tyrtaeus
								Alcman
6th								Sappho
								Alcaeus
								Mimnermus
								Stesichorus
								Theognis
								Hipponax
								Anacreon
								Simonides
5th				Aeschylus				Pindar
				Sophocles				Bacchylides
				Euripides		Aristophanes
4th						Menander

3rd		Apollonius						Theocritus
		Callimachus
		Livius Andronicus
		Naevius				Plautus
2nd		Ennius				Plautus
				Pacuvius		Terence
				Accius
1st				Accius
		Lucretius						Catullus
		Vergil						Horace
								Propertius
								Tibullus
		Ovid						Ovid