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 Nicander Dramatic poets Aeschylus Aristophanes Euripides Menander Sophocles Pastoral poets Bion Moschus Theocritus

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Lyric poets Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcman of Sparta Anacreon of Teos Pindar of Thebes Sappho of Lesbos Simonides of Keos Stesichorus of Metauros Other poets Apollonius Rhodius Archilochus Callimachus Corinna Tyrtaeus

Child portals: Ancient Greek drama • Odes of Pindar

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Poets of classical Rome

Republican

• Catullus
• Lucretius

Augustan

• Horace
• Ovid
• Propertius
• Sulpicia
• Tibullus
• Virgil

Silver Age

• Juvenal
• Lucan
• Martial
• Statius

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Other ancient poets

• Commodianus
• David
• Saint Fiacc
• Prudentius
• 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