poet, scholar, and director of the Library of Alexandria. Aratus (Greek Aratos; c. 315 BC/310 BC – 240 BC) Macedonian Greek didactic poet, known for his technical poetry Archestratus (Greek Archestratos; fl. 330 BC) poet of Gela or Syracuse Archilochus (Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος; c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC) poet and mercenary Arctinus of Miletus epic poet whose reputation is purely legendary, as none of his works survive; traditionally dated between 775 BC and 741 BC Aristeas, semi-legendary poet and miracle-worker, a native of Proconnesus in Asia Minor, active c. 7th century BC Aristodama (c. 218 BC), poet of ancient Ionia Aristophanes, c. 456–386 BC, known as the Father of Comedy Asclepiades of Samos epigrammatist, lyric poet, and friend of Theocritus, who flourished about 270 BC Asius of Samos, archaic epic Aulus Licinius Archias (fl. c. 120 BC–61 BC) poet born in Antioch in Syria (modern Antakya in Turkey) B Bacchylides lyric poet born at Iulis, on the island of Ceos; Eusebius says he flourished in 467 BC Bion of Smyrna bucolic poet born at Phlossa near Smyrna; flourished 100 BC C Callimachus (Greek: Καλλίμαχος; c. 305 BC – c. 240 BC), poet and critic; native of Cyrene and scholar of the Library of Alexandria Callinus (also known as Kallinus) of Ephesus in Asia Minor, flourished mid-7th century BC; the earliest known Greek elegiac poet Chaeremon Athenian dramatist of the first half of the fourth century BC generally considered a tragic poet Chersias of Orchomenus, archaic epic Choerilus (tragic poet) Athenian tragic poet, who exhibited plays as early as 524 BC Choerilus of Iasus, epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC. Choerilus of Samos, epic poet of Samos, who flourished at the end of the 5th century BC Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon, a legendary early Greek poet sometimes called the author of the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony; Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3 BC Cleanthes (c. 330 BC – c. 230 BC) Cleophon (poet) (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn), Athenian tragic poet who flourished in the 4th century BC Corinna (or Korinna) poet traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC Creophylus of Samos (in Greek Kreophylos) legendary early Greek singer, native to Samos or Chios, said to have been a contemporary of Homer Crobylus possible Middle Comedian, lived some time after 324 BC Crinagoras of Mytilene (70 BC –