The authors in this period come from the Greek and Roman Empires. The poems appeared in the ode, elegy, lyric and epic form. The Websites below should help get you started.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by 
Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture by 
Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities by 
Handbook of Classical Literature by 
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by 
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by 
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by 
The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited by 
Classical Literary Criticism by 
The Sacred World of the Celts by 
The Epic of Gilgamesh by 
The Metamorphoses of Ovid by 
A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey by 
Rethinking the Mahabharata by 
Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy by 
The Burial at Thebes by 
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle by 
Homer Beside Himself by 
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius by 
Ovid and the Moderns by 
Allusion and Intertext by 
