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| 423 BC |
| | | Socrates is now sufficiently prominent to be satirized in Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes | |
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| c. 425 BC |
| | | Aristophanes wins first prize in Athens for his comedy The Acharnians | |
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| 37 BC |
| | | Virgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues, influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his birth near Mantua | |
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| 23 BC |
| | | The first three books of Horace's Odes are published, written on his Sabine farm | |
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| c. 20 BC |
| | | A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores, brings Ovid an early success | |
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| c. 380 |
| | | Kalidasa, the most distinguished of India's authors in classical Sanskrit, is at the Gupta court in Patna | |
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| c. 600 |
| | | The classic form of Arabic poetry, predating Islam, evolves as the qasidah | |
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| c. 730 |
| | | Three of China's most famous poets - Wang Wei, Li Po and Tu Fu - are contemporaries during the T'ang dynasty | |
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| 778 |
| | | An attack on Charlemagne's army, traditionally at the pass of Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees, is later the basis for the Chanson de Roland | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy | |
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