5th century BC in poetry

Ancient Greece[edit]

Phrynichus (tragic poet) (6th c. BC - post 475 BC) ^[1]
Aeschylus (525 - 456 BC) ^[2]
Pindar (ca. 518 - ca. 438 BC) ^[3]
Sophocles (495 - 405 BC) ^[4]
Euripides (480 - 406 BC) ^[5]
Critias (460 - 403 BC) ^[6]
Aristophanes (ca. 460 - 403 BC) ^[7]
Phrynichus (comic poet) (5th c. BC) ^[8]

Bimbisara, king of Magadha, hires poets to recite poems to his wife Khema describing the beauty of the monastery at which Gautama Buddha is staying in order to entice her to visit (approximate date)^[9]

^ OCD, sv Phrynicus (1)
^ Brunet et al., 5
^ Brunet et al, 356
^ Brunet et al, 392
^ Brunet et al, 107
^ OCD, sv Critias
^ OCD, sv Aristophanes (1)
^ OCD, sv Phrynicus (2)
^ Bansal, Sunita Pant (2006). On the Footsteps of Buddha. Smriti Books. p. 41. ISBN 9788187967736.

S. Brunet, R. Smith, & S. Trzaskoma (eds. & trans.) (2004) Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation. Hackett Publishing Co.: Indianapolis, IN.
S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, & E. Eidinow (eds.) (2012) The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

Centuries in poetry
6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Decades in poetry
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Centuries
6th century BC 5th century BC 4th century BC
Dates in this period are often estimated or disputed