List of Named Poets
- Homer
- Stasinus of Cyprus
- Creophylus of Samos
- Panyassis of Halicarnassus
- Arctinus of Miletus
- Lesches of Pyrrha
- Cinaethon of Sparta
- Thestorides of Phocaea (the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer says that Thestorides used writing)
- Antimachus of Teos
- Eumelus of Corinth
- Agias of Troezen
- Diodorus of Erythrae
- Hegesias of Salamis (or Hegesinus)
- Cyprias of Halicarnassus
- Carcinus of Naupactus
- Prodicus of Phocaea
- Eugammon of Cyrene
- Pisinous of Lindus
- Pisander of Camirus
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