List of Ancient Greek Poets - C

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• Callimachus (Greek: Καλλίμαχος; ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC), poet and critic; native of Cyrene and scholar of the Library of Alexandria
• Callinus (also known as Kallinus) of Ephesus in Asia Minor, flourished mid-7th century BC; the earliest known Greek elegiac poet
• Chaeremon Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BC generally considered a tragic poet
• Chersias of Orchomenus, archaic epic
• Choerilus (tragic poet) Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC
• Choerilus of Iasus, epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC.
• Choerilus of Samos, epic poet of Samos, who flourished at the end of the 5th century BC
• Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon, a legendary early Greek poet sometimes called the author of the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony; Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3 BC
• Cleophon (poet) (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn), Athenian tragic poet who flourished in the 4th century BC
• Corinna (or Korinna) poet traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC
• Creophylus of Samos (in Greek Kreophylos) legendary early Greek singer, native to Samos or Chios, said to have been a contemporary of Homer
• Crobylus possible Middle Comedian, lived some time after 324 BC
• Crinagoras of Mytilene
• Cyclic poets
• Cynaethus