Bacchylides
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Bacchylides , fl. c.470 BC, Greek lyric poet, b. Ceos; nephew of Simonides of Ceos. A contemporary of Pindar, he was patronized by Hiero I. His poetry is noted for its narrative powers, clarity, and lucidity. A number of Bacchylides' epinicia and dithyrambs were among the verses recovered from an Egyptian papyrus (text published by F. G. Kenyon, The Poems of Bacchylides, 1897).
Bibliography: See A. P. Burnett, The Art of Bacchylides (1985).
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