6th century BC in poetry

Poets (by date of birth)

 * Anacreon (c. 570–c.485 BCE), Teos
 * Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–c.478 BCE)
 * Phocylides (b. c. 560 BCE)
 * Simonides of Ceos (c. 556–469 BCE)
 * Hipponax of Ephesus (fl. 540 BCE)
 * Aeschylus (525–456 BCE)
 * Pindar (c. 522/518 in Cynoscephalae – 443 BCE in Argos)
 * Bacchylides (b. c. 507 BCE)

Dates unknown:
 * Ibycus, flourished in Rhegium
 * Aesop
 * Theognis of Megara
 * Corinna

Works

 * Ode to Polycrates

Poets

 * Jeremiah of Anathoth, writing in Hebrew

Works

 * Psalms
 * Book of Jeremiah
 * Book of Lamentations

Poets

 * Approximate date of Vyasa

Works

 * Approximate date of the Mahabharata