3rd century BC in poetry

This article describes aspects of poetry in the 3rd century B.C.

Mediterranean World

Poets (by date of birth)

• Apollonius of Rhodes (c. 295 - after 246 BCE), Greek
• Ennius (239 - 169 BCE), Salento, Latin

Date unknown:

• Herodas, Greek
• Theocritus, Greek
• Anyte of Tegea, Greek woman poet

Works

• Likely date for the Book of Job, written in Hebrew
• Aetia by Callimachus

China

Poets (by date of birth)

• Song Yu

Works

• Chu Ci, the second great anthology of early Chinese poetry