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Ode 5 For Hieron of Syracuse Single-horse victory at Olympia 476 B. C. Fortunate in your fate, commander of the Syracusans, riders of whirling horses: you, [5] if any man on earth today, will rightly understand this honor, sweet gift of the violet-garlanded Muses.
Bacchylides ( / bəˈkɪlɪˌdiːz /; Greek: Βακχυλίδης Bakkhulides; c. 518 – c. 451 BC) was a Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets, which included his uncle Simonides. The elegance and polished style of his lyrics have been noted in Bacchylidean scholarship since at least Longinus.
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Bacchylides. Greek lyric poet, nephew of the poet Simonides, born on the island of Ceos near the end of the sixth century BC and lived at least until the middle of the fifth century. Like his contemporary Pindar, Bacchylides wrote in a variety of lyric genres (e.g. hymns, paeans, encomia), but the bulk of his surviving works consists of ...
effective adaptation of the oral tradition, I have chosen Ode 5 as an illustration, because it draws on epic with which we are familiar, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Hesiod's Theogony. Ode 5, Bacchylides' First Olympian Ode for Hieron, begins with an invocation to his patron (I-6): EOLPE 7ZvpaKOUT'O iTrTro)vv-Wv CrparayE0 ,,Yqcc /-LEV tocTTEOaV
Bacchylides (born c. 510 bc, Ceos [Cyclades, Greece]) was a Greek lyric poet, nephew of the poet Simonides and a younger contemporary of the Boeotian poet Pindar, with whom he competed in the composition of epinician poems (odes commissioned by victors at the major athletic festivals).
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Ode 5. Τῷ Αὐτῷ Κέλητι Ολύμπια. εὔμοιρε Συρακοσίων. ἱπποδινήτων στραταγέ, γνώσει μὲν ἰοστεφάνων. Μοισᾶν γλυκύδωρον ἄγαλμα, τῶν γε νῦν. 5 αἴ τις ἐπιχθονίων, ὀρθῶς: φρένα δ᾽ εὐθύδικον ...
Feb 11, 2009 · The consensus of modern opinion on the performance of this ode is that it was not a properly commissioned epinicion, but was sent spontaneously by Bacchylides in an attempt to introduce himself to Hieron.
