Greek lyric poetry

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ancient Greek poetic genre lyric poetry

Greek lyric poetry is an ancient Greek poetic tradition characterized by personal expression, musical accompaniment (often by the lyre), and varied metrical forms, flourishing from the 7th to 5th centuries BCE.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Aeolic poetry	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek poetic genre ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ
associatedWithRegion	Boeotia NERFINISHED ⓘ Ionia NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesbos NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy	first-person voice ⓘ musical accompaniment ⓘ personal expression ⓘ
contrastedWith	Greek dramatic poetry ⓘ Greek epic poetry ⓘ
culturalContext	ancient Greek literature ⓘ
flourishedDuring	5th century BCE ⓘ 6th century BCE ⓘ 7th century BCE ⓘ
influenced	Hellenistic poetry ⓘ Roman lyric poetry ⓘ later European lyric traditions ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
majorPoet	Alcaeus of Mytilene NERFINISHED ⓘ Alcman NERFINISHED ⓘ Anacreon NERFINISHED ⓘ Archilochus NERFINISHED ⓘ Bacchylides NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibycus NERFINISHED ⓘ Pindar NERFINISHED ⓘ Sappho NERFINISHED ⓘ Simonides of Ceos NERFINISHED ⓘ Stesichorus NERFINISHED ⓘ
performedAt	religious festivals ⓘ symposia ⓘ
performedBy	chorus ⓘ solo singer ⓘ
preservedIn	later quotations by ancient authors ⓘ papyrus fragments ⓘ
subgenre	choral lyric ⓘ elegiac poetry ⓘ iambic poetry ⓘ melic poetry ⓘ monodic lyric ⓘ
theme	desire ⓘ friendship ⓘ love ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ symposium culture ⓘ war ⓘ
typicalInstrument	aulos ⓘ lyre ⓘ
usesMetricalForms	varied metrical schemes ⓘ

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Aeolians → associatedWith → Greek lyric poetry ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aeolic poetry

Corinna → literaryMovement → Greek lyric poetry ⓘ