_Lacedaemonian_, sc. Alcman, circa 650 B.C.
_Cean_, sc. Simonides, circa 520 B.C.
_Lesbian_, sc. Sappho, circa 600 B.C.
_Aedituus_, _Porcius_, _Catulus_, erotic epigrammatists of the
Republican period, 130-100 B.C. The latter was Marius' colleague in
the Cimbrian wars.
_Solon._ The line ascribed to Solon is almost too gross in the
original to be genuine.
_Diogenes_, the founder of the Cynic school (died 324 B.C.), wrote
'concerning marriage and the begetting of children' in an erotic
fashion. Diog. Laert. vi. 2. 12.
_Zeno_ of Citium, founder of the Stoic school (died 264 B.C.), wrote
an 'art of love'. Diog. Laert. vii. 21. 29.