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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, though, and was acclaimed for his
epitaph on the Athenians who died at Marathon. He was a successful
poet in various genres, including victory odes, dirges, and
dithyrambic poetry. The power of his pathos emerges in the
fragments we have. All the extant verse of these poets is given in
this third volume of David Campbell's edition of Greek lyric
poetry, along with the ancients' accounts of their lives and works.
Ten contemporary poets are also included, among them Arion, Lasus,
and Pratinas. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric is
in five volumes. Sappho and Alcaeus-the illustrious singers of
sixth-century Lesbos-are in the first volume. Volume II contains
the work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the Anacreontea; and
the earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century
Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Bacchylides and other fifth-century
poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that
she belongs to the third century). The last volume includes the new
school of dithyrambic poets (mid-fifth to mid-fourth century),
together with the anonymous poems: drinking songs, children's
songs, cult hymns, and others.
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Simonides D. alt. Von Keos Nach Seinem Leben Beschrieben Und
In Seinen Poetischen uberresten ubersetzt Franz Wilhelm Richter,
Simonides (Ceus) Glaser, 1836
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