Which Greek poet does Dante place in Limbo?

The Greek poet Dante places in Limbo is Homer.

In Inferno, Canto IV, Dante enters Limbo, the first circle of Hell, where virtuous pagans and people who lived before Christianity experience no physical torture but remain separated from the vision of God. Virgil introduces Dante to a celebrated group of poets: Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. Homer is presented as the foremost poet of the group, an ancient master whose epic authority influenced the entire literary tradition Dante inherited.

Dante’s Homer is not a historical portrait in the modern sense. Medieval Europe knew Homer mainly through reputation, summaries, and the Latin literary tradition, since the Greek epics were not widely available in the original language in Dante’s Italy. Nevertheless, Dante treats him as the supreme pagan poet and as a symbolic predecessor.

The other options are also Greek dramatists, which makes them plausible distractors, but Dante does not identify Aristophanes, Euripides, or Sophocles as the leading poet encountered in Limbo. Dante instead sees Homer among a select company of classical and medieval intellectuals.