title: 7th century BC in poetry
text: # 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
  