Byzantine poets

11th-century Byzantine monk, writer and court official

Agathias Scholasticus (; 582/594) was a Byzantine poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558.

Nonnus of Panopolis (, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs, 5th century AD) was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Imperial Roman era. He was a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid and probably lived in the 5th century AD. He is known as the composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and of the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John. The epic Dionysiaca describes the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. It was written in Homeric Greek and in dactylic hexameter, and it consists of 48 books at 20,426 lines.

Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.

Byzantine poet and writer (c.1110–1180)

7th century Byzantine poet

Byzantine poet

Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer, and poet

thumb|De laudibus Iustini Augusti, published in Antwerp in 1581 Flavius Cresconius Corippus (floruit 565) was a Roman African epic poet who flourished under East Roman emperors Justinian I and Justin II. His major works are the epic poem Iohannis, a panegyric called "Panegyric of Anastasius", and a poem in praise of the Emperor Justin II, In laudem Iustini minoris. Corippus was probably the last important Latin author of Late Antiquity.

Byzantine poet

Coluthus or Colluthus of Lycopolis (; ) was a Greek-Egyptian epic poet of the late Roman Empire who flourished during the reign of Anastasius I in the Thebaid.

Byzantine bishop and poet

Greek Renaissance scholar, poet of Neolatin, humanist and soldier

Byzantine poet, rhetorician and theologian

Christodorus (), a Greek epic poet from Coptos in Egypt, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I (491–518). His father was named Paniskos (Πανίσκος).

Egyptian politician (400-470)

Byzantine poet

Byzantine poet

11th-century Byzantine poet and writer

Egyptian poet, lawyer, civic administrator

Byzantine rabbi

Byzantine physician and poet

Pamprepius (, Pamprépios; Latin: Pamprepius; 29 September 440 – November 484) was a philosopher and a pagan poet who rebelled against the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno.

court official of Trebizond and poet

Byzantine writer and poet

Jewish poet

Karaite rabbi

Byzantine clergyman and poet

African bishop

ancient Greek poet