6th century BC in poetry
# 6th century BC in poetry

## Ancient Greece

### Poets (by date of birth)

* Anacreon (c. 570–c.485 BCE), Teos
* Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–c.478 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 (b. c. 507 BCE)

Dates unknown:

* 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

## India

### Poets

* Approximate date of Vyasa

### Works

* Approximate date of the Mahabharata
