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Mimnermus (Greek: Μίμνερμος Mímnermos) was a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia, who flourished about 632–629 BC (i.e. in the 37th Olympiad, according to Suda). He was strongly influenced by Homer , yet he wrote short poems suitable for performance at drinking parties and was remembered by ancient authorities ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Mimnermus (flourished c. 630 bc, Smyrna, Asia Minor [now İzmir, Tur.]) was a Greek elegiac poet, long thought to have been from Colophon; that city claimed him because of his portrayal of the city’s foundation in his poetry. In his historical epic, Smyrneis, Mimnermus recounts the courageous acts of a warrior (who may have been his ...
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Mimnermus. “Mimnermus : —Son of Ligyrtiades, of Colophon or Smyrna or Astypalaea, writer of Elegy. He flourished in the 37th Olympiad （632-629 B.C.）, and thus precedes the Seven Sages, though according to some authorities he was contemporary with them. He was also called Ligyastades, because he was sweet-and-clear （ λιγύς ）,that is musical.
“Mimnermus: — But we, like the leaves that come in the flowery Springtime when they wax so quickly beneath the sunbeams, like them we enjoy the blossoms of youth for a season but an ell long, the Gods giving us knowledge 3 neither of evil nor of good; for here beside us stand the black Death-Spirits, the one with the end 4 that is grievous Eld, the other that which is Death; and the ...
Mimnermus is the oldest poet who mentioned an eclipse of the sun, and spoke of it as a threatening and mournful sign. (Plut. De Facie in Orbe Lunae, p. 931e.) He is also the earliest authority that we have for the mythus that the sun, after setting in the west, is carried round the earth in a golden bowl, the work of Hephaestus, by the river ...
(late 7th century bc ).The ancient Greek poet Mimnermus was the first to make elegiac verse a vehicle for love poetry. Evidently he was admired by the ancients; most of the surviving fragments of his works have come from quotations by later authors. Mimnermus lived in the ancient Ionian Greek city of Colophon, in modern-day Turkey.
Mimnermus was a Greek elegiac poet from Smyrna or Colophon, who wrote about the battle against Gyges and his love for a girl or boy. The article provides fragments of his poetry, dates, sources, and references.
