BACCHYLIDES

băkĭlˈĭdēz, fl. c.470 b.c., 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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Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire
Book by Simon Hornblower, Catherine Morgan; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Bacchylides--Criticism And Interpretation, Laudatory Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Pindar--Criticism And Interpretation
...victory and celebration by Pindar and Bacchylides clearly reflects a collective audience...asserted so emphatically by Pindar and Bacchylides is confirmed, if confirmation were...from complication. Both Pindar and Bacchylides stress the patrons exposure to phthonos...
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Essays on Greek Literature
Book by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell; Macmillan, 1909
Subjects: Bacchylides, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri), Pindar, Plutarch, Sophocles
...inconsistent with the present treatise 85 BACCHYLIDES Work of Dr. Kenyon, and the late Professors...princeps --Judgment of antiquity on Bacchylides borne out by the finds--Judgment...fragments unused--Com parison of Bacchylides with Pindar--Ode III., Death of...
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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
B BACCHYLIDES OF CEOS (early fifth century B.C.) Bacchylides was a Greek lyric poet and a rival of *Pindar. Little...Simonides, the poet to *Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse. Bacchylides lived for some time at Hierons court and may also...
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Simonides: A Historical Study
Book by John H. Molyneux; Bolchazy-Carducci, 1992
Subjects: Epigrams, Greek--History And Criticism, Poets, Greek--Biography, Simonides--Ca. 556-467 B.C
more, in the case of Bacchylides (unlike that of Simonides), the scholiasts...for this alleged hostility, viz. that Bacchylides slandered Pindar before Hieron and that Hieron preferred Bacchylides poems to Pindars lz3 To say that they...
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Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus
Book by Michael Simpson, Leonard Baskin, Apollodorus; University of Massachusetts Press, 1976
Subjects: Mythology, Greek
...Heracles essential heroic role. Bacchylides Although Heracles is mentioned in several of the nineteen poems of Bacchylides which survive, it is Ode 5 which...At lines 56-175 of that poem Bacchylides tells of Heracles encounter with...
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Lucius's Parents, Theseus and Salvia, in 'The Golden Ass.'
Journal article by Gertrude C. Drake; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 29, 1993
Subjects: Apuleius, Lucius--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Metamorphoses (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Myth in literature--Analysis, The Golden Ass (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...crown, in which, according to Bacchylides, fiery gems were set so as to form roses--Aphrodites flower (Bacchylides 167.113f). In another version...Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1961. Bacchylides. Works. Trans. M. Lefkowitz...
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Browning's Christmas Eve, Lines 560-62
Journal article by —michael V. Dimassa; The Explicator, Vol. 53, 1995
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...in a pejorative light, has made the bee a symbol of peace, cooperation, industry, and art. In the works of Pindar, Bacchylides, Simonides, and Aristophanes, the bee is used repeatedly as "an image of the creative spirit at work." 4 In his fourth...
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The Myth of Rhetoric: Korax and the Art of Pollution
Journal article by Stephen Olbrys Gencarella; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2007
Subjects: Historical analysis, Pollution, Religious orders, Violence
...bird, and the latter with korakes. Some have suggested that this is an allusion to his chief poetic rivals, Simonides and Bacchylides,24 whereas others suggest they reference inferiors in general.25 For the present discussion, the point is a lingering...
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Disability, Wrongful-Life Lawsuits, and Human Difference: An Exercise in Ethical Perplexity
Journal article by Maria Michela Marzano-Parisoli; Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 27, 2001
Subjects: Disability--Social aspects, Disabled children--Cases, Wrongful life--Moral and ethical aspects
...indeed recognized and emphasized in ancient times by Job and by some of the early Greek poets such as Hesiod, Theognis, and Bacchylides--one might seek damages "for being born of a certain color, another because of race." (21) The direct consequence...
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Homeric Recitation, with Input from Phonology and Philology*
Journal article by Avery D. Andrews; Antichthon, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Competition, Linguistics
...what is marked is usually the pitch peak of a group of words (Nagy 2000a). This works well for many of the cola in the Bacchylides Papyri, as in 75.7 (Nagy 2000a: 26): ... which comes out as: ... By anathesis, the accent on ... is higher...
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Bacchylides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BACCHYLIDES bakil idez, fl. c.470 b.c...clarity, and lucidity. A number of Bacchylides epinicia and dithyrambs were among the...published by F. G. Kenyon, The Poems of Bacchylides, 1897). See A. P. Burnett, The...
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Simonides of Ceos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at the time of the Persian Wars. He was a friend of most prominent Athenians. After the wars he went (with his nephew Bacchylides) to the court of Hiero I of Syracuse, where he was a rival of Pindar. There are only fragments left of his work, but...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...performance, developed with Alcman , Ibycus , and Stesichorus , achieved perfection in Pindar , Simonides of Ceos , and Bacchylides . The Classical Period Greek drama evolved from the song and dance in the ceremonies honoring Dionysus at Athens. In the...
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Dithyramb
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was developed (according to tradition, by Arion ) into the literary form to be found, for example, in the dithyrambs of Bacchylides . In its later development by such poets as Philoxenus and Timotheus it became freer in its meter and more musical. The...
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KÉa , Island, Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cyclades. Fruits, barley, and silk are produced. Kea, the main town, is situated on the site of ancient Iulis. The poets Bacchylides and Simonides were born on the island. Under Ottoman rule it was a pirates haven, when it was also called Zea, Zia, or...


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