6th Century BC in Poetry

Dates unknown:

  • Ibycus, flourished in Rhegium
  • Aesop
  • Theognis of Megara
  • Corinna
Sappho

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    Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)