Odes
A nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar for aristocratic commissions, Bacchylides composed victory odes and narrative dithyrambs known mostly from later quotation until a papyrus recovered in Egypt in 1896 restored large portions of his text.
A nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar for aristocratic commissions, Bacchylides composed victory odes and narrative dithyrambs known mostly from later quotation until a papyrus recovered in Egypt in 1896 restored large portions of his text.
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