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Headword:
Bakchulidês
Adler number: beta,59
Translated headword: Bakkhulides, Bacchylides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Keian, from the island of
Keos, of the city Ioulis (for it has four cities, Ioulis, Karthaia, Koressia, Poiessa), son of Medon,[1] the son of
Bacchylides the athlete; relative of
Simonides the lyric poet,[2] himself a lyric poet also.
Bakchulidês, Keios, apo Keô tês nêsou, poleôs de Ioulidos [echei gar poleis d#, Ioulida, Karthaian, Koressian, Poiêessan], Medônos huios, tou Bakchulidou tou athlêtou paidos: sungenês Simônidou tou lurikou, kai autos lurikos.
Notes:
Bacchylides, a contemporary and rival of
Pindar, is reported to have written lyric hymns as well as odes addressed to human beings, collected by the Alexandrians in a total of nine books. His works were lost until 1896 when parts of two papyrus rolls of his epinicians and dithyrambs were discovered. See link to Perseus Encyclopedia entry below.
[1] For other versions of this name see under
mu 834 and
mu 835.
[2]
sigma 439,
sigma 440,
sigma 441.
Reference:
Bibliography may be found in the Perseus Encyclopedia entry(link below).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; biography; geography; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 November 2000@23:01:43.
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