Tyrtaeus

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[tur-tee-uhs] / tɜrˈti əs /

noun

1. flourished 7th century b.c., Greek poet.

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Ms. Rosenwein quotes the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus, summarizing his opinion that “when a white-haired man falls to the enemy, he is a ‘shameful sight,’ whereas a young man dead on the battlefield is beautiful.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

For Roman elegy is mainly amatory or sentimental; and its masters imitated, as a rule, not the early Greek elegists, not Tyrtaeus or Theognis, but the later Alexandrian elegists, such as Callimachus or Philetas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

And we shall naturally go on to say to him,—You, Tyrtaeus, as it seems, praise those who distinguish themselves in external and foreign war; and he must admit this.

From Laws by Benjamin Jowett

Encouraged by the strains of Tyrtaeus, the Spartans again marched against the Messenians.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith

The question of Tyrtaeus is complicated by other problems.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray