Bacchylides (/ bəˈkɪlɪˌdiːz /; Ancient Greek: Βακχυλίδης Bakkhulides; c. 518 – c. 451 BC) was a Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets, which included his uncle Simonides.

Bacchylides (born c. 510 bc, Ceos [Cyclades, Greece]) was a Greek lyric poet, nephew of the poet Simonides and a younger contemporary of the Boeotian poet Pindar, with whom he competed in the composition of epinician poems (odes commissioned by victors at the major athletic festivals).

2008年9月11日 · Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xviii.-General introduction: 1. The life of Bacchylides. II. The place of Bacchylides in the history of Greek lyric poetry. III. Characteristics of Bacchylides as a poet. Iv. Dialect and grammar. V. Metres. VI. The papyrus. Autotype plates. VII.

Like his contemporary Pindar, Bacchylides wrote in a variety of lyric genres (e.g. hymns, paeans, encomia), but the bulk of his surviving works consists of epinician odes for victors in the Panhellenic games. A papyrus discovered in Egypt in 1896 preserves fifteen victory odes and six poems which have been classed as dithyrambs.

2014年7月30日 · Bacchylides of Keos was a choral song composer of the first half of the 5th century BCE, one of the nine archaic/classical Greek lyric poets canonized by the Alexandrians.

McDevitt’s new introduction, translation, and commentary provide the general reader of Bacchylides (surely elusive) with the historical and literary context that is so important for understanding these odes in English.

Bacchylides (c. 520–450 BCE), lyric poet, of Iulis in *Ceos, son of Midon (or Midylus, Etym. Magn. 582, 20), nephew of *Simonides (Strabo 486, Suidas, entry under Βακχυλίδης).

Bacchylides of Keos was a choral song composer of the first half of the fifth century BCE, one of the nine archaic/classical Greek lyric poets canonised by the Alexandrians.

Bacchylides (ca. 520-450 BC)Lyric poet from Ceos who was the nephew (through his mother) of Simonides. Bacchylides wrote dithyrambs (narrative poems with mythological subjects, sung by a chorus with one solo singer) and took part in poetry competitions in Athens.

The poems, or fragments of poems, in the Bacchylides Papyrus are of two general kinds. The first thirteen pieces are epinikia. The remaining six, all relating to episodes in the story of heroes and heroines, were collectively classed by the Alexandrians as ‘dithyrambs,’ in that large sense of the term which was explained above.