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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.
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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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 ...
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Bacchylides of Keos was a choral song composer of the first half of the 5th century BCE, one of the nine archaic/classical Greek lyric poets canonized by the Alexandrians. Although he was famous in his lifetime, attracting commissions from across the Hellenic world, 5th-century poetry shows few obvious traces of his influence and no obvious ...
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).
Ode 15 (Dithyramb 1) The Sons of Antenor, or The Demand for Helen's Return Ode 16 (Dithyramb 2) [Heracles (or Deianeira?), for the Delphians] Ode 17 (Dithyramb 3) Youths, or Theseus Ode 18 (Dithyramb 4) Theseus [for the Athenians] Ode 19 (Dithyramb 5) Io: for the Athenians Ode 20 (Dithyramb 6) Idas: for the Lacedaemonians
Jul 12, 2007 · Abstract. This book combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early 5th century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, it is argued, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to ...
