18 AD) Cyclic poets Cynaethus (late 6th century BC) D Diagoras the Atheist of Melos, poet and sophist of the 5th century BC Dionysius Chalcus (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Χαλκοῦς) an ancient Athenian poet and orator E Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC), poet apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious (lost) sex manual. Epicharmus of Kos flourished sometime between c. 540 and c. 450 BC; a dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comic writers. Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) (Greek: Ἐπιμενίδης), a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet. Erinna, female contemporary and friend of Sappho; a native of Rhodes, Telos or Tenos; flourished about 600 BC. Eubulus (poet), Athenian Middle Comedy poet, flourished 370s and 360s BC. Eugammon of Cyrene Eumelus of Corinth Euphorion of Chalcis (3rd century BC) Eupolis (c. 446 BC – c. 411 BC) Euripides (c. 480 BC – c. 406 BC), one of the three surviving Classical Athenian tragedians, with 18 (possibly 19) surviving plays. Evenus of Paros (5th century BC) H Hermesianax of Colophon, elegiac poet of the Alexandrian school, flourished about 330 BC Hermippus the one-eyed, Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, flourished during the Peloponnesian War. Herodas (3rd century BC) Hesiod Hipponax (6th century BC) Homer I Ibycus (Ἴβυκος), lyric poet of Rhegium in Italy, contemporary of Anacreon, flourished in the 6th century BC; one of the Nine lyric poets Ion of Chios (c. 490/480 BC – c. 420 BC) dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher, contemporary of Euripides Iophon (flourished 428 BC–405 BC), tragic poet, son of Sophocles Isyllus poet whose name was rediscovered in the course of excavations on the site of the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, where an inscription was found engraved on stone, consisting of 72 lines of verse and preceded by two lines of prose giving this author's name L Lasus, lyric poet of the 6th century BC Lesches, a semi-legendary poet and reputed author of the Little Iliad; traditionally a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos; flourished about 660 BC (according to others, about 50 years earlier) M Magnes (comic poet) (5th century BC) Melinno probably of Epizephyrean Locris, lyric poet, 2nd or 1st century BC. Menander (c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC), best-known writer of Athenian New Comedy. Menippus of Gadara in Coele-Syria, cynic and satirist, flourished 3rd century BC. Mesomedes, lyric poet and composer of