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    about Tyrtaeus at Wikisource Head of Tyrtæus. One of the Medallion Wafer poems by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the Literary Gazette, 1823. Tyrtaeus: Greek...
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    Dorians (section Tyrtaeus)
    Herakleidai. Hall cites the tradition, based on a fragment of the poet, Tyrtaeus, that "Sparta is a divine gift granted by Zeus and Hera" to the Heracleidae...
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    Phaenna. A shrine was erected to him in the neighborhood of Therapne. Tyrtaeus, an archaic era Spartan writer, is the earliest source to connect the origin...
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  • or a widow, respectively. The existence of the apophorá is contested by Tyrtaeus: "Secondly, though no fixed tribute was imposed on them, they used to bring...
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    Papilio sempronius Fabricius, 1793 Jasia australis Swainson, 1833 Charaxes tyrtaeus C. & R. Felder, 1859 Charaxes galaxia Butler, [1866] Eulepis pyrrhus pyrrhulus...
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    Mythology, Ty Crowell Co; First edition (1970). ISBN 069022608X. Tyrtaeus in Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Mimnermus. Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh...
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    (1870). The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And The Warsongs of Tyrtæus. Translated by Banks, J. London: W. Clowes and Sons. Retrieved 11 March...
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    Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon Tyrtaeus Xenophon Others Athenian statesmen Lawgivers Olympic victors Tyrants By...
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    Solon's elegiac style is said to have been influenced by the example of Tyrtaeus. He also wrote iambic and trochaic verses, which, according to one modern...
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    dust, wounded behind in the back by the point of a spear. — Tyrtaeus, The War Songs of Tyrtaeus Each hoplite provided his own equipment. The primary hoplite...
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  • Retrieved 2008-02-08. Saunders, Dr.L.J. History 223. Montreal: Concordia University. October 31, 2007 Pausanias (geographer) Diodorus Siculus Tyrtaeus...
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    (a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus). Modern scholars in general opt for a birthplace in mainland Greek Megara...
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    created the Kaali crater 650s BC: The Spartan Creed by Ancient Greek poet Tyrtaeus 650s BC: Occupation begins at Maya site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. 657...
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    related to Pelops. House of Atreus Ancient Elis Mount Sipylus Niobe Nyctimus Tyrtaeus, fr. 12.7; Cypria fr. 16.4; Simonides, fr. 11.36 Pindar, Olympian Odes...
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  • King Leon of Sparta. Anaxander is mentioned by famous persons, including Tyrtaeus (a poet) and Pausanias (geographer). Totius latinitatis lexicon: C-E (1861)...
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    work have been observed in Alcaeus, Epimenides, Mimnermus, Semonides, Tyrtaeus and Archilochus, from which it has been inferred that the latest possible...
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  • throughout the Greek period and treated a number of different themes. Tyrtaeus composed elegies on a war theme, apparently for a Spartan audience. Theognis...
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  • adhere to an ideal of military valour, as exemplified by the poems of Tyrtaeus, who praised men who fell in battle and heaped scorn on those who fled...
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    Her Sexual History?". Electric Literature. Retrieved December 21, 2018. Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Mimnermus. Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to...
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    efficient way. The choir of the Academy, Tyrtarion (from the names of Tyrtaeus and Arion), has already become well known in the domain of Latin and Greek...
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    was used by many authors, regardless of their origin; like the Dorian Tyrtaeus, composing elegies in a form of Ionic. This ability of poets to switch...
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  • lyric/sympotic poet 5th century BC and bitter critic of Themistocles Tyrtaeus (fl. late 7th century BC) a Spartan elegiac poet (or Athenian), author...
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