Tyrtaeus
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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
The earliest of the Greek elegists, Callinus and Tyrtaeus, use elegy to rouse a warlike spirit in sinking hearts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
He has not inaptly been styled the Tyrtaeus of modern English poetry, and one of the most chaste and tender as well as original of poets.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 by Various
And is it not as disgraceful for Solon and Lycurgus to lay down false precepts about the institutions of life as for Homer and Tyrtaeus?
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
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 Smith, William, Sir
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