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    7th century—Mimnermus evidently hoped thereby to strengthen his countrymen's resolve against further Lydian encroachments. The name "Mimnermus" might have...
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    Bacchylides Euripides Herodotus Hesiod Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus Panyassis Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles...
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  • 24; Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 369. Gantz, p. 30; Eumelus fr. 17 West; Mimnermus fr. 12 Gerber; Stesichorus fr. S 17 Campbell [= 185 Poetae Melici Graeci];...
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    the end of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. The seventh-century BC poet Mimnermus accounts that Ismene was murdered by Tydeus, one of the Seven against...
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  • Mimnermus in Church is a poem written by William Johnson Cory. William Johnson was an Eton College master and author of the lyrics to the "Eton Boating...
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    Mimnermus of Colophon (630BC) details a flat-Earth model, with the sun (Helios) bathing at the edges of Oceanus that surround the Earth (Mimnermus, frg...
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  • appalled that she changed her mind and let Tydeus die. The 7th century poet Mimnermus attributes the murder of Ismene, the sister of Antigone, to Tydeus. No...
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    forgetfulness of pain and the cessation of obligations. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early deities Ouranos...
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  • Carians out of the city of Lebedus. His tomb was shown near Colophon. Mimnermus related that Andraemon was a native of Pylos and founder of Colophon....
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  • Hesiod (the Theogony and the Works and Days), and surviving fragments from Mimnermus. Beginning in the 5th century BC, elements of the traditional Greek cosmos...
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    birthplace of the philosopher Xenophanes and the poets Antimachus and Mimnermus. Colophon was the strongest of the Ionian cities and renowned both for...
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    once composed an elegy with moral advice for a more gifted elegiac poet, Mimnermus. Most of the extant verses show him writing in the role of a political...
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    Ethiops, with whom he passes the dark hours. According to Athenaeus, Mimnermus said that in the night Helios travels eastwards with the use of a bed...
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  • most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry (Sappho, Alcaeus, Hipponax, Mimnermus etc.). Kakisis has also translated into modern Greek famous works by Lewis...
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  • for conveying any strong emotion. At the end of the 7th century BCE, Mimnermus of Colophon struck on the innovation of using the verse for erotic poetry...
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    edition (1970). ISBN 069022608X. Tyrtaeus in Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Mimnermus. Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC, edited...
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    Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, lines 220–318; cf. Sappho, fr. 58 Campbell; Mimnermus, fr. 4 Gerber. Clearchus of Soli fragment 20 [= Zenobius 4.18.] Keightley...
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    some resemblance to letters, including an elegiac poem from Solon to Mimnermus and some lyrical poems from Pindar to Hieron of Syracuse. Lucilius had...
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    Die?" Coventry Patmore "Departure" William (Johnson) Cory Heraclitus "Mimnermus in Church" Sydney Dobell "The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston" William Allingham...
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    needed] Imitations of his work have been observed in Alcaeus, Epimenides, Mimnermus, Semonides, Tyrtaeus and Archilochus, from which it has been inferred...
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    like lines attributed by ancient sources to other poets (Solon, Euenus, Mimnermus and Tyrtaeus). and other couplets are repeated with few or no changes...
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  • elegy in which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to have composed. Along with these poets, all his near contemporaries...
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  • poets Homer – Lyric poets Alcaeus – Alcman – Archilochus – Bacchylides – Mimnermus – Pindar – Sappho – Semonides – Simonides of Ceos – Tyrtaeus – Tragedians...
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