TYRTAEUS

tərtēˈəs, fl. 7th cent. b.c. at Sparta, Greek elegiac poet. Fragments of his martial elegies in Dorian Greek, which were written to spur Spartan soldiers to victory, are extant. An Athenian legend relates that Athens sent Tyrtaeus, a lame schoolmaster, to Sparta when Sparta needed help in war.

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Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion
Book by Oswyn Murray; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: Symposium (Classical Greek Drinking Party)--Congresses
...theoretically possible that the songs of Tyrtaeus sung by Spartan banqueters in the tradition...and attributed by a scholiast on Dio to Tyrtaeus himself. 20 They would be a bizarre...Spartans which involved the singing of Tyrtaeus poems to...
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From Melos to My Lai: War and Survival
Book by Lawrence A. Tritle; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Violence--Cross-Cultural Studies, Violence--Greece--History, Violence--United States--History
...recourse to flight. 15 The poetry of Tyrtaeus is full of interest as it provides a...that they lack a semblance of reality. Tyrtaeus poetry, on the other hand, allows the...whether to stand and fight or to run. Tyrtaeus poetry is much more authentic, too...
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Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience
Book by Victor Davis Hanson; Routledge, 1993
...233 denies use of the hoplite shield in Tyrtaeus, based on fr.11.23-4 West the...much weight on a poetic plural. 44. Tyrtaeus ed. West fr.11.35-8,19.1...Kromayer and Veith 1928:80 n. 2. 45. Tyrtaeus ed. West 10-12,19.10-17; Pritchett...
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Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature
Book by Douglas L. Cairns; Clarendon Press, 1993
Subjects: Aid?Os (The Greek Word), Ethics In Literature, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Honor In Literature, Psychology In Literature, Shame In Literature
...losing all his arete in the way described by Tyrtaeus. 57 In this sense the fragments of Tyrtaeus seem to reflect a real world in a way that...the world of the Homeric poems and that of Tyrtaeus lie in the relationship of individual to...
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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
...From Augustus to Justinian , 1989. Paul Miller TYRTAEUS (fl. c. 630 B.C.) Tyrtaeus was a Spartan elegiac poet. His poems, of...for public ethics, especially in wartime. Tyrtaeus biography is derived primarily from quotations...
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journal articles on: Tyrtaeus  - 8 results

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The Historian Ephorus: His Selection of Sources*
Journal article by Victor Parker; Antichthon, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Books, Poetry, Poets
...this rests on what the contemporary poet Tyrtaeus wrote of it. Through him we know that...now look more closely at those bits of Tyrtaeus poetry which survive in the form of quotations...what posterity valued most highly in Tyrtaeus work, namely the ringing endorsement...
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Giving Voice to the Crimean War: Tennyson's "Charge" and Maud's Battle-Song
Journal article by Stefanie Markovits; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009
Subjects: Crimean War, 1853-1856--Portrayals, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Works, War poetry--Analysis
...own "some one had blundered." (24) Kingsley adds a partial defense of Tennyson: "He is no Tyrtaeus, though he has a glimpse of what Tyrtaeus ought to be" (Charles Kingsley, letter to Thomas Hughes, December 18, 1854, in Charles Kingsley...
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A History of the Archaic Greek World Ca. 1200-479 BCE
Journal article by Anthony J. Podlecki; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: A History of the Archaic Greek World Ca. 1200-479 BCE (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...that we lack secure, independent evidence for the date of Tyrtaeus poetry and cannot even be sure if he was an individual historical...status" (p. 6). And yet the poetic remains of Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus and a handful of others he mines assiduously (and...
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Greek Hoplites, Warrior Culture, and Indirect Bias
Journal article by W.G. Runciman; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects: Greece--History, Military art and science--History, Warfare, Primitive--Research
...commemoration echoes similar sentiments voiced by the poet Tyrtaeus at the very beginning of the hoplite era. Indeed, Pericles...Older men might become involved in battle in case of need (Tyrtaeus 10.24-5) but were normally confined to guard duty (Thucydides...
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Celebrating the Past: Horace's Odes as Aide Memoire
Journal article by S. Thom; Akroterion, 2008
Subjects: Greek poets--Criticism and interpretation, Greek poets--Works, Horace--Criticism and interpretation, Horace--Works, Mnemonics--Methods, Odes (Horace) (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...et decorum est pro patria mori. This title refers us directly to Odes 3.2.13 even though the line originally occurs in Tyrtaeus fr. 10.1-2 (also in Simonides, Harrison 2001:260-271). However the Horatian context of this line has fundamental...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tyrtaeus  - 3 results

 
 
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Tyrtaeus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TYRTAEUS t rte s, fl. 7th cent. b.c. at Sparta, Greek elegiac poet. Fragments...soldiers to victory, are extant. An Athenian legend relates that Athens sent Tyrtaeus, a lame schoolmaster, to Sparta when Sparta needed help in war...
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Sparta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Laconian and Messenian subjects. In the 7th cent. b.c. Sparta enjoyed a period of wealth and culture, the time of the poets Tyrtaeus and Alcman. After 600 b.c., however, Sparta cultivated only the military arts, and the city became an armed camp, established...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Homeric Hymns are dated 800 300 b.c. Only fragments survive of the works of many early Greek poets, including the elegiasts Tyrtaeus , Theognis , Solon , Semonides of Amorgos , Archilochus , and Hipponax . The most personal Greek poems are the lyrics of Alcaeus...


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