5th century BC in poetry

Poets (by date of birth)

 * Sophocles (495 - 406 BCE)
 * Euripides (480 - 406 BCE)
 * Critias (460 - 403 BCE)

Works

 * The last poems of the Shi Jing likely completed prior to the end of the Warring states period in 481 BCE; the first poems may date more than 7 centuries earlier.