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Ode 1 For Argeius of Ceos Boys' Boxing Match (?) at the Isthmus Date unknown Ode 2 For Argeius of Ceos Boys' Boxing Match (?) at the Isthmus Date unknown Ode 3 For Hieron of Syracuse Chariot-Race at Olympia 468 B. C. Ode 4 For Hieron of Syracuse Chariot Race at Delphi 470 B. C. Ode 5 For Hieron of Syracuse Single-horse victory at Olympia 476 B. C. Ode 6 For Lachon of Ceos [Boys'] Foot Race at ...
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).
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.
Epinicians By Bacchylides Translated by H. Maehler. This work is only provided via the Perseus Project at Tufts University. You may begin reading the English ...
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 ...
A man whose spirit is whirled about by the lightest ambitions [180] has honor only as long as he lives. Excellence is a difficult struggle, but when the struggle is completed rightly it leaves a man, even when he dies, the enviable ornament of renown.
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Bacchylides was successful during his own lifetime-the commission from Hieron in 468 was the greatest plum available to a poet - and he was counted by the Alexandrians as one of the nine canonical lyric poets. Horace admired Bacchylides, imitating Fr. 20B in Carmen 3.21, and, according to Porphyrion, following Bacchylides in Carmen 1.15.
