Roman republic/Roman empire

Poets (by date of birth)

• Lucretius (94 - 49 BCE)
• Catullus (84 -54 BCE)
• Virgil (Oct. 15, 70 - Sept. 21, 19 BCE)
• Gallus (69 - 26 BC), Egypt
• Horace (Dec. 8, 65 - Nov. 27, 8 BC)
• Tibullus (54 - 19 BCE)
• Propertius (50 - 15/2 BCE), Bevagna
• Ovid (Mar 20, 43 BCE - 17 CE)

Unknown Date:

• Sulpicia^[1] - the only woman poet of Ancient Rome whose works survive
• Meleager of Gadara

Works

• Meleager of Gadara gathers an anthology of short poems and epigrams that would become the basis for the Greek Anthology

South Asia

Works

• The Pali Canon is first written down (estimated)
• The Tolkappiyam, a Tamil grammar written in verse

China

Poets (by year of birth)

• Yang Xiong (53 BCE - 18 CE)

Korea

Poets (by year of birth)

• Yuri of Goguryeo, (reigned c. 17 BCE to 18 CE)