Bacchylides

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ancient Greek lyric poet epinician poet poet of the classical period

Bacchylides was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BCE, renowned for his victory odes and dithyrambs, and often mentioned alongside his contemporary Pindar.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek lyric poet ⓘ epinician poet ⓘ poet of the classical period ⓘ
associatedWith	choral performance ⓘ
associatedWithDeity	Dionysus NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthPlace	Ceos NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyclades NERFINISHED ⓘ
comparedTo	Pindar NERFINISHED ⓘ
contemporaryOf	Pindar NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Ancient Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ
culturalContext	Panhellenic festival culture ⓘ
dateOfBirth	late 6th century BCE ⓘ
dateOfDeath	5th century BCE ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Greek ⓘ
floruit	first half of the 5th century BCE ⓘ
genre	dithyramb ⓘ epinicion ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ
hasOccupation	poet ⓘ
influenced	later Hellenistic scholars ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mentionedBy	later Greek critics ⓘ
mentionedIn	ancient scholia on Pindar ⓘ
meter	various lyric meters ⓘ
movement	Greek lyric poetry ⓘ
notableWork	dithyrambs ⓘ victory odes NERFINISHED ⓘ
numberOfSurvivingFragments	numerous fragments ⓘ
numberOfSurvivingPoems	approximately 20 complete or nearly complete poems ⓘ
patron	Hieron I of Syracuse NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Ceos NERFINISHED ⓘ Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ Thessaly NERFINISHED ⓘ
relative	Simonides of Ceos NERFINISHED ⓘ
style	clear and narrative ⓘ
subjectOf	modern classical scholarship ⓘ
workPreservedIn	Oxyrhynchus papyri NERFINISHED ⓘ
workRediscovered	1896 ⓘ
workRediscoveredBy	papyrus finds in Egypt ⓘ
wroteAbout	athletic victories ⓘ mythological narratives ⓘ praise of rulers ⓘ
wroteDithyrambsInHonorOf	Dionysus NERFINISHED ⓘ
wroteFor	Greek aristocratic patrons ⓘ victorious athletes ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pindar → contemporaryOf → Bacchylides ⓘ

Nemean lion myth → earliestSources → Bacchylides ⓘ

Deinomenid dynasty → patronOf → Bacchylides ⓘ

Deinomenid family → patronage → Bacchylides ⓘ

Ceos → hasNotablePoet → Bacchylides ⓘ