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    Bacchylides (/bəˈkɪlɪˌdiːz/; Greek: Βακχυλίδης Bakkhulides; c. 518 – c. 451 BC) was a Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list...
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    Aegina has "twice fallen into the arms of Victory" and achieved fame. In Bacchylides Ode 12 Nike encourages Teisias of Aegina to compete in the wrestling...
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    raised by Leda and Tyndareus. According to the Byzantine poet Tzetzes, Bacchylides had Nemesis as the mother of the Telchines by Tartarus. The word nemesis...
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    version at the Perseus Digital Library. Bacchylides in Bacchylides, Corinna. Greek Lyric, Volume IV: Bacchylides, Corinna, and Others. Edited and translated...
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    Thales Zeno Authors Aeschylus Aesop Alcaeus Archilochus Aristophanes Bacchylides Euripides Herodotus Hesiod Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus...
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    other form. According to a scholion on the Iliad (citing Hesiod and Bacchylides), when Europa is picking flowers with her female companions in a meadow...
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  • Makelo was the only one to be spared. According to Bacchylides, the survivor is Dexithea. Bacchylides also mentions that Dexithea later had a son Euxanthios...
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    Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. In the...
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    If some god had been holding level the balance of Dike (Justice). — Bacchylides, Fragment 5 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric IV) (Greek lyric c. 5th...
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    Thales Zeno Authors Aeschylus Aesop Alcaeus Archilochus Aristophanes Bacchylides Euripides Herodotus Hesiod Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus...
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    Pindar (c. 522 – c. 443 BC) apparently gave Cerberus one hundred heads. Bacchylides (5th century BC) also mentions Heracles bringing Cerberus up from the...
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    come after Cerberus. In Bacchylides' Ode V, Meleager is depicted as still in his shining armor, so formidable, in Bacchylides' account, that Heracles...
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    who wreathed him with her wedding wreath, according to a fragment of Bacchylides. Jane Ellen Harrison recognized in the poetic treatment an authentic...
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    Bough, London: MacMillan Jendza, Craig (2013). "Theseus the Ionian in Bacchylides 17 and Indo-Iranian Apam Napat". The Journal of Indo-European Studies...
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    pp. 87, 246–247, see image plates and captions. Bacchylides, Dithyrambs (470 B.C); xx. 2 Bacchylides, Epinikion; ix. 23 Pitman 2003, pp. 9–10, 14–15....
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  • liberal patron of literature and culture. The poets Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, and Epicharmus were active at his court, as well the philosopher...
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    III and volume IV on the Pythoness and Delphi). Fearn, David (2007). Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199215508...
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    Strom. Vii.4] Ode 18, Dithyramb 4, verse 51, quoted in Bacchylides: a selection By Bacchylides, Herwig Maehler, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 191...
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  • Come! Help avenge the murder of our father!" Bacchylides, fr. 20a Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 406 Bacchylides, fr. 20a (from the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1361)...
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  • of Paion, according to Pherecydes; the daughter of Nyx, according to Bacchylides; the daughter of Perses, the son of Helios, by an unknown mother, according...
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  • Atreus was the father of Pleisthenes, but in some lyric poets (Ibycus, Bacchylides) Pleisthenides (son of Pleisthenes) is used as an alternative name for...
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    dialect. The paraphrase survives only as a fragment. The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted or paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of...
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    same website. Bacchylides, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1991. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Bacchylides, The Poems and...
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    Iphigenia in Tauris 845–846; Pausanias, 2.16.5, 7.25.5–6; for Tiryns, see Bacchylides, 11.77; Strabo, 8.6.11; Apollodorus 2.2.1; Pausanias, 2.16.5, 2.25.8...
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    Press, 1960. Online version at ToposText. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments, Georg Olms Verlag, 1905, 1994. ISBN 3-487-09858-X...
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    Cumae in 474 BC. His rule was eulogized by poets like Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides and Pindar, who visited his court. A democratic regime was introduced...
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  • JSTOR 24591525. Hesiod Theogony 221 Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17 Hyginus Preface Bacchylides Frag 1B Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.467 with the...
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    Atlantian city of Cerne, and razed the city to the ground. The Poet Bacchylides (6th century BC) and the historian Herodotus (5th century BC) located...
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    heroes who participated in the hunt assembled from all over Greece. Bacchylides has Meleager describe himself and the rest of the hunters as "the best...
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