1st century in poetry

Poets (by date of birth)

 * Thirukural (31-), Thiruvalluvar

Events

 * 8 - Exile of Ovid: Ovid is banished for the remainder of his life to Tomis on the Black Sea by personal intervention of the Emperor Augustus

Poets (by date of birth)

 * Ovid (43BCE-17)
 * Columella (4-70), Cadiz?
 * Persius (34-62), Etruscan
 * Quintilian (35-95)
 * Lucan (Nov. 3, 39 - Apr. 3, 65), Hispania Baetica
 * Statius (45-96), Naples
 * Martial (86-103), Hispania

Dates not known:
 * Caesius Bassus (died in Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 (Aug. 24))
 * Calpurnius, Sicily?
 * Manilius
 * Juvenal
 * Sulpicia

Works

 * Marcus Manilius (probable author), Astronomica (c. 10-20)
 * Ovid, Tristia (c. 9-12) and Epistulae ex Ponto (c. 13-16)
 * Statius, Thebaid (c. 90), Silvae (c. 93–96) and Achilleid (c. 94–96, unfinished)

Poets (by date of birth)

 * Zhang Heng (78-139), Eastern Han
 * Ban Gu (32-92)