Bacchylides
Bacchylides (băkĬl´Ĭdēz), 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).
See A. P. Burnett, The Art of Bacchylides (1985).
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