Portal:Ancient poetry

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Ancient poetry

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The ancient era covers all poetical writings before the seventh century CE. Poetry following this period is in Portal:Medieval poetry.

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Poets of ancient Greece

Epic poets Hesiod Homer Didactic poets Aratus Dramatic poets Aeschylus Aristophanes Euripides Menander Sophocles

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Lyric poets Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcman Anacreon Archilochus Bion Corinna Moschus Pindar Sappho Simonides of Keos Theocritus Tyrtaeus

Child portals: Ancient Greek drama • Odes of Pindar

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Poets of classical Rome

• Catullus
• Quintus Tullius Cicero
• Horace
• Juvenal
• Lucretius
• Ovid
• Virgil

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Other ancient poets

• Callimachus
• Commodianus
• David
• Saint Fiacc
• Prudentius
• Apollonius Rhodius
• Solomon
• Abu'l-Qasim Suri

Collections of ancient poetry

• Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
• Fragments of poetry by Julius Caesar
• Masterpieces of Greek Literature (transcription project)
• The poems of Catullus
• The Poems of Sappho
• Portal:Appendix Vergiliana
• Portal:Odes of Pindar

Poems by title

Table of contents

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Aeneid
• Anacreontea

B

• Batrachomyomachia, Battle of the Frogs and Mice
• Baucis and Philemon, Wikisource translation

C

• Carmina

D

• Danaë and her Babe adrift
• Diosemeia

E

• Eclogues

G

• Georgics
• A Girl in Love

H

• Hymn to Ares
• Hymn to Demeter
• Hymn to Dionysus
• Hymn to Venus

I

• Iliad, Homer
• Inter Ignes Luna Minores

L

• A Lament for Adonis

M

• Marius
• Martial Elegy
• Metamorphoses

O

• Odyssey, Homer
• On his Consulship
• On those who died at Thermopylae
• One Girl

P

• Psalms (Bible)
• Phenomena

S

• Satires, Horace
• Shield of Herakles
• Song of the Rose
• Song of Songs (Bible)

T

• Theogony
• To a Loved One
• To Evening
• To His Soul

V

• Vigil of Venus

W

• Works and Days
• Winter

See also

• Portal:Ancient Greek drama
• Portal:Greek language and literature
• Portal:Latin language and literature
• Portal:Poetry