title: 2nd century in poetry
text: # 2nd century in poetry
  
  ## Roman empire
  
  ### Poets
  
  * Juvenal, in Latin
  * Oppian of Corycus in Cilicia, writing in Greek
  * Lucian of Assyria, writing in Greek
  * Straton of Sardis, writing in Greek
  
  ## Persia
  
  ### Works
  
  * latest likely date for the Drakht-i Asurig, the earliest known Pahlavi poem
  
  ## China
  
  ### Poets (by date of birth)
  
  * Cao Cao (155-220), Eastern Han
  * Cao Pi (187-226), Eastern Han
  * Cao Zhi (192-232), Eastern Han
  