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Headword:
Βακχυλίδης
Adler number: beta,59
Translated headword: Bakkhulides, Bacchylides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Keian, [i.e.] from
Keos the island, but of the city Ioulis (for it has 4 cities, Ioulis, Karthaia, Koressia, Poiessa), son of Medon,[1] [who was] the son of
Bacchylides the athlete; a relative of
Simonides the lyric poet,[2] himself a lyric poet also.
Βακχυλίδης, Κεῖος, ἀπὸ Κέω τῆς νήσου, πόλεως δὲ Ἰουλίδος [ἔχει γὰρ πόλεις δ#, Ἰουλίδα, Καρθαίαν, Κορεσσίαν, Ποιήεσσαν], Μέδωνος υἱὸς, τοῦ Βακχυλίδου τοῦ ἀθλητοῦ παιδός: συγγενὴς Σιμωνίδου τοῦ λυρικοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸς λυρικός.
Notes:
c.520-450 BCE. See generally Herwig Maehler in OCD(3) s.v.
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.
[1] For other versions of this name see under
mu 834 and
mu 835.
[2] His nephew, in fact. For
Simonides see
sigma 439,
sigma 440,
sigma 441.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 November 2000@23:01:43.
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