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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.
1 Ceos, off the coast of Attica; homeland of Bacchylides and his uncle, the poet Simonides. 2 Heracles. 3 Cerberus. 4 Meleager. Porthaon is his grandfather; his father is Oineus. 5 Heracles. Alcmene is his mother. 6 Heracles has both a divine father (Zeus) and a nominal mortal father (Amphitryon).
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Bacchylides, who described himself as “the Caen nightingale,” wrote in a style that was simpler and less sublime than Pindar’s. He excelled in narrative, pathos , and clarity of expression. A good example of all three is the encounter of Heracles with the ghost of Meleager in the underworld (ode 5), an episode treated also by Pindar ...
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Bacchylides’ three odes for the tyrant Hieron of Syracuse can be dated with relative certainty. Ode 5 (Bacchyl. 5) commemorates Hieron's Olympic single-horse victory of 476, also the occasion of Pindar's Olympian 1 (Pind. O. 1).
Bacchylides speaks of the concrete and practical, ments, the actual songs, the friendship of the in the opening lines of Ode 5 is the transitory the portrait of a single figure on a red-figured tially real and human. There are no specific dates in the proem to this Olympian ode, but Hieron world, happy only in measure.
For Hieron of Syracuse Chariot-Race at Olympia 468 B. C. Clio, giver of sweet gifts, sing the praises of the mistress of most fertile Sicily, Demeter, and of her violet-garlanded daughter, and of Hieron's swift horses, racers at Olympia; [5] for they sped with majestic Victory and with Aglaia by the wide-whirling Alpheus, where they made the son of Deinomenes a prosperous man, a victor winning ...
McDevitt is a proponent of the theory that shorter epinician odes were composed for performance at the site of victory while longer epinician odes composed for the same victory were performed in the home polis of the victor (e.g., pp. 69, 84-5, 108, 113, 140). This theory is put forth most vigorously by Gelzer, 5 and it still finds regular ...
