Homer

Hesiod

Archilochus

Stesichorus

Alcaeus

Sappho

Anacreon

Simonides of Ceos

Aesop

Aeschylus

Pindar

Bacchylides

Sophocles

Herodotus

Euripides

Thucydides

Aristophanes

Xenophon

Anonymous: The Mahabarata

Qu Yuan

Callimachus

Valmiki

Plautus

Quintus Ennius

Polybius

Terence

Sima Xiangru

Sima Qian

Marcus Terentius Varro

Cicero

Tiruvalluvar

Lucretius

Sallust

Catullus

Virgil

Horace

Strabo

Livy

Sextus Propertius

Albius Tibullus

Ovid

Seneca the Younger

Martial

Lucan

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Statius

Plutarch

Juvenal

Tacitus

Pliny the Younger

Suetonius

Ashvaghosha

Lucian

Lucius Apuleius

Cao Zhi

Ruan Ji

Lu Ji

Tao Qian

Xie Lingyun

Kalidasa

Various: Al-Mu'allaqat

Al-Khansa'

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

Al-Akhtal

Al-Farazdaq

Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah

Jarir

Caedmon

Bana

Yamanoue Okura

Anonymous: The Book of the Dun Cow

Bede the Venerable

Bhavabhuti

Wang Wei

Li Bai

Du Fu

Cen Shen

Otomo Yakamochi

Abu Nuwas

Abu al-'Atahiyah

Anonymous: Beowulf

Han Yu

Bai Juyi

Liu Zongyuan

Yuan Zhen

Abu Tammam

Wen Tingyun

Li Shangyin

Al-Buhturi

Ibn Qutaybah

Sugawara Michizane

Rudaki

Cynewulf

Anonymous: The Thousand and One Nights

Al-Mas'udi

Minamoto Shitago

Al-Mutanabbi

Ferdowsi

Ki Tsurayuki

Li Yu

Pampa

Sei Shonagon

Al-Hamadhani

Al-Ma'arri

Murasaki Shikibu.