Author
c. 518–c. 450 BC · Lyric poet
The nephew of Simonides and Pindar’s rival at the court of Hieron of Syracuse. His poems were known only from quotations until a papyrus roll was found in Egypt in 1896.
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Bacchylides
His victory odes and dithyrambs, in Greek beside English.
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