Mimnermus
670–600 a. C.
Greece (Colophon/Smyrna), c. 670–600 BC. An elegiac poet, the first to make the elegy a song of love and pleasure; his verse laments the brevity of youth and the horror of old age. His work is in the public domain.
- Τίς δὲ βίος (s. VII a. C.)