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) ^[1]
• 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

References

1. "Sappho, lyric poet, c. 630–c. 570 bce". Oxford Classical Dictionary . Retrieved 18 November 2025.