List of Ancient Greek Poets - I

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• Ibycus (Ἴβυκος), lyric poet of Rhegium in Italy, contemporary of Anacreon, flourished in the 6th century BC; one of the Nine lyric poets
• Ion of Chios, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher, contemporary of Euripides
• Iophon (flourished 428 BC–405 BC), tragic poet, son of Sophocles
• Isyllus poet whose name was rediscovered in the course of excavations on the site of the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, where an inscription was found engraved on stone, consisting of 72 lines of verse and preceded by two lines of prose giving this author's name