| Aeschylus | Tragic playwright, Greek, 6th – 5th Century BCE |
| Aesop | Fabulist, Greek, 7th – 6th Century BCE |
| Anonymous | Epic poet, Sumerian/Mesopotamian/Akkadian, c. 20th – 10th Century BCE |
| Anonymous | Various religious writers, Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek, c. 9th Century BCE – 2nd Century CE |
| Anonymous | Epic poet, Old English, c. 8th Century CE |
| Apollonius of Rhodes | Epic poet, Greek, 3rd Century BCE |
| Aristophanes | Comic playwright, Greek, 5th – 4th Century BCE |
| Catullus | Lyric and elegiac poet, Roman, 1st Century BCE |
| Euripides | Tragic playwright, Greek, 5th Century BCE |
| Hesiod | Didactic poet, Greek, 8th Century BCE |
| Homer | Epic poet, Greek, 8th Century BCE |
| Horace | Lyric poet and satirist, Roman, 1st Century BCE |
| Juvenal | Satirist, Roman, 1st – 2nd Century CE |
| Lucan | Epic poet, Roman, 1st Century CE |
| Menander | Comic playwright, Greek, 4th – 3rd Century BCE |
| Ovid | Didactic, elegiac and epic poet, Roman, 1st Century BCE – 1st Century CE |
| Pindar | Lyric poet, Greek, 6th – 5th Century BCE |
| Pliny the Younger | Correspondent, Roman, 1st – 2nd Century CE |
| Sappho | Lyric poet, Greek, 7th – 6th Century BCE |
| Seneca the Younger | Tragic playwright and satirist, Roman, 1st Century CE |
| Sophocles | Tragic playwright, Greek, 5th Century BCE |
| Vergil (Virgil) | Epic and didactic poet, Roman, 1st Century BCE |
