Bacchylides

[buh-kil-i-deez]

noun

1. flourished 5th century b.c., Greek poet.

Example Sentences

Bacchylides, the little “Cean nightingale,” is inferior to his great rival Pindar, “the Swan of Dirce,” in originality and splendour of language, but he writes simply and elegantly, while his excellent γνῶμαι attracted readers of a philosophical turn of mind, amongst them the emperor Julian.

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Pindar and Bacchylides, Aeschylus and Simonides found a welcome at the court of Hiero.

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A poet who would write an epic must adopt a form of language modelled on that of Homer and Hesiod; Alcaeus and Sappho were the models for the love lyric, which was therefore Aeolic; Stesichorus was the founder of the triumphal ode, which, as he was a Dorian of Sicily, must henceforth be in Doric, though Pindar was an Aeolian, and its other chief representatives, Simonides and Bacchylides, were Ionians from Ceos.

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On which account Bacchylides says:— Sweet force, from wine proceeding, Now warms my soul with love, And on my spirit leading, With hopes my heart does move.

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And all these nations, being so to say the entire population of the world, called the dancer who was so famous in our time Memphis, comparing him, on account of the elegance of his movements, to the most royal and honourable of cities; a city of which Bacchylides sings— Memphis, which winter dares not to assail, And lotus-crowned Nile.

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