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Categories: Ancient Greek poets People from the South Aegean Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Lyric poets |
Summary Of: Bacchylideswe may suppose that Bacchylides was born circa 507 BC... avers that Hiero preferred the Odes of Bacchylides to those of Pindar... Pindar and Bacchylides wrote odes of the same kind in his honour... in 468 Bacchylides alone was commissioned to do so... to find that in the extant work of Bacchylides there is not the faintest semblance of hostile allusion to any rival... names Bacchylides in a list of writers... first and most general quality of style in Bacchylides is his simplicity and clearness... Another prominent trait in the style of Bacchylides is his use of picturesque detail... Bacchylides describes the running of the winner much more vividly and fully... The method of Bacchylides in this department of the epinikion is best illustrated by the myth of Croesus in... The moralizing of Bacchylides is rather an utterance of quiet meditation... of Bacchylides are followed in the manuscript by six compositions which the Alexandrians classed under the general... The papyrus containing the odes of Bacchylides was found in... Bacchylides seems to have written at least three other poems of this class...Encyclodia Page On: Bacchylides |
