<Li> Lasus lyric poet of the 6th century BC </Li> <Li> Lesches a semi-legendary poet and reputed author of the Little Iliad; traditionally a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos; flourished about 660 BC (according to others, about 50 years earlier) </Li> <Ul> <Li> Magnes (comic poet) (5th century BC) </Li> <Li> Melinno probably of Epizephyrean Locris, lyric poet, 2nd or 1st century BC </Li> <Li> Menippus of Gadara in Coele - Syria, cynic and satirist, flourished 3rd century BC </Li> <Li> Mesomedes lyric poet and composer of the early 2nd century </Li> <Li> Mimnermus of Colophon, elegiac poet, flourished about 630 - 600 BC . </Li> <Li> Moschus bucolic poet and friend of Aristarchus of Samothrace, born at Syracuse, flourished about 150 BC . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Magnes (comic poet) (5th century BC) </Li>

Greek poet considered to be founder of tragedy