List of Ancient Greek Poets - P

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• Palladas (flourished 4th century AD) of Alexandria; unknown except for his epigrams in the Greek Anthology
• Panyassis of Halicarnassus (sometimes known as Panyasis), 5th century BC epic poet, wrote the Heracleia and the Ionica
• Parthenius of Nicaea of Nicaea in Bithynia; grammarian and poet taken prisoner in the Mithridatic Wars and carried to Rome in 72 BC. He taught Virgil Greek.
• Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, epic poet who flourished about 640 BC.
• Phanocles elegiac poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great
• Pherecrates Athenian Old Comedy poet and rough contemporary of Cratinus, Crates and Aristophanes.
• Philemon (poet) (c. 362 BC – c. 262 BC) Athenian New Comedy poet and playwright born either at Soli in Cilicia or at Syracuse in Sicily but moved to Athens some time before 330 BC
• Philitas of Cos (c. 340 – c. 285 BC), Alexandrian poet and critic, founder of the Alexandrian school of poetry
• Philoxenus of Cythera (435 BC–380 BC) a dithyrambic poet
• Phocylides gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, born about 560 BC.
• Phrynichus (comic poet), poet of the Old Attic comedy and contemporary of Aristophanes, flourished around 429 BC
• Pindar
• Plato (comic poet)
• Polyeidos (poet)
• Poseidippus of Pella
• Poseidippus of Cassandreia
• Pratinas
• Praxilla