Other famous poets from ancient Greece include Homer, the author of the Odyssey and the Iliad, and Hesiod, the author of Theogony and Works and Days. Those these poets are among the most famous, their epic and didactic styles are dissimilar to Sappho's lyricism. Other lyric poets of the time include Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreaon, and Pindar.
Though she was not a known poet, Aspasia was another woman of ancient Greece with a major influence on writing and culture of the time. She is mentioned in the writing of Plutarch, Plato, and Aristophanes, and is thought to have been a major influence on Socrates.
