7th century BC in poetry
# 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 (c. 740 - c. 665 BC)
* Tyrtaeus (c. 700 - c. 640 BC)
* Archilochus of Paros (born c. 700)
* Alcman (dates unknown)
* Semonides
* Solon (ca. 638–558 BCE)
* Mimnermus of Colophon (fl. 630-600)
* Stesichorus (640 - 555 BCE), Himera, Sicily
* Sappho (c. 630 - 570 BCE)
* Alcaeus (born c. 620 in Mytilene)
* Eumelus of Corinth (late 7th century BC)

### Works

* Odyssey
* Iliad
* Theogony
* Works and Days
* Homeric Hymns
* Aethiopis [fragments]
* Little Iliad [fragments]
* Iliou persis ("Sack of Troy") [fragments]
* Nostoi [fragments]
* Telegony [fragments]
* Cypria [fragments]
* Oedipodea [fragments]
* Thebaid [fragments]
* Epigoni [fragments]
* Alcmeonis (fragments)

## Middle East

### 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
