Greek Lyric, Volume III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others (Loeb Classical Library) by Stesichorus, Simonides, Ibycus

Greek Lyric, Volume III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others (Loeb Classical Library)



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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Page: 672
ISBN: 9780674995253


The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"—a recognition of his epic themes and noble style. He composed verses about the Trojan War and its aftermath, the Argonauts, the adventures of Heracles. He may have been a solo singer, performing these poems to his own cithara accompaniment. Ibycus probably belonged to the colony of Rhegium in southwestern Italy. Like Stesichorus he wrote lyrical narratives on mythological themes, but he also composed erotic poems. Simonides is said to have spent his later years in Sicily. He was in Athens at the time of the Persian Wars, ...

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