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Composing at the court of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, Ibycus fused choral lyric's mythic grandeur with an intensely personal vocabulary of erotic longing, most famously comparing desire to a wild horse broken too late in life.
Composing at the court of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, Ibycus fused choral lyric's mythic grandeur with an intensely personal vocabulary of erotic longing, most famously comparing desire to a wild horse broken too late in life.
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