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Bacchylides

5th century BCE · 5th century BCE

Bacchylides was a Greek lyric poet from Ioulis on the island of Keos and the nephew of Simonides. He wrote victory odes, dithyrambs and other choral poems for patrons such as Hieron I of Syracuse. His works were known only from quotations until a papyrus with many of his poems was found in Egypt and published in 1897.

Bacchylides
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bacchylides. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bacchylides
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