5th century BC in poetry

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Ancient Greece edit

Poets (by date of birth) edit

Phrynichus (tragic poet) (6th c. BC - post 475 BC) ^[1]
Aeschylus (525 - 456 BC) ^[2]
Pindar (ca. 518 - ca. 438 BC) ^[3]
Sophocles (495 - 405 BC) ^[4]
Euripides (480 - 406 BC) ^[5]
Critias (460 - 403 BC) ^[6]
Aristophanes (ca. 460 - 403 BC) ^[7]
Phrynichus (comic poet) (5th c. BC) ^[8]

India edit

Events edit

Bimbisara, king of Magadha, hires poets to recite poems to his wife Khema describing the beauty of the monastery at which Gautama Buddha is staying in order to entice her to visit (approximate date)^[9]

Citations edit

^ OCD, sv Phrynicus (1)
^ Brunet et al., 5
^ Brunet et al, 356
^ Brunet et al, 392
^ Brunet et al, 107
^ OCD, sv Critias
^ OCD, sv Aristophanes (1)
^ OCD, sv Phrynicus (2)
^ Bansal, Sunita Pant (2006). On the Footsteps of Buddha. Smriti Books. p. 41. ISBN 9788187967736.

References edit

S. Brunet, R. Smith, & S. Trzaskoma (eds. & trans.) (2004) Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation. Hackett Publishing Co.: Indianapolis, IN.
S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, & E. Eidinow (eds.) (2012) The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

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