3rd century BC in poetry

Mediterranean World

Poets (by date of birth)

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek
• Ennius, Salento, Latin

• Herodas, Greek
• Theocritus, Greek
• Anyte of Tegea, Greek woman poet

  Works

• Likely date for the Book of Job, written in Hebrew

  China

Poets (by date of birth)

• Song Yu

  Works

• Chu Ci, the second great anthology of early Chinese poetry