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Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre. It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the " Lyric Age of Greece ", [ 1 ] but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial periods.
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Lyric poems often employed highly varied poetic meters. The most famous of all lyric poets were the so-called "Nine Lyric Poets". [21] Of all the lyric poets, Sappho of Lesbos (c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was by far the most widely revered. In antiquity, her poems were regarded with the same degree of respect as the poems of Homer. [22]
Moero (Greek: Μοιρώ) or Myro (Greek: Μυρώ) was a woman poet of the Hellenistic period from the city of Byzantium. She was the wife of Andromachus Philologus and the mother – the Suda says daughter, but this is less likely – of the tragedian Homerus of Byzantium .
Anyte's pastoral poems and epitaphs for pets were important innovations, with both genres becoming standards in Hellenistic poetry. [28] Her pastoral works may have influenced Theocritus , and both Ovid and Marcus Argentarius wrote adaptations of her poems; [ 28 ] the epigrammatist Mnasalces produced an epigram collection in imitation of Anyte ...
Nossis' poetry is known for its focus on women, their world, and subjects relevant to them. [ 14 ] [ 3 ] Two-thirds of her surviving poetry is about women. [ 4 ] Marilyn B. Skinner suggests that it was originally written for an audience of close female companions, [ 13 ] and identifies Nossis as an early example of the "recognizably female ...
Hermesianax of Colophon (Greek: Ἑρμησιάναξ; gen.:Ἑρμησιάνακτος) was an Ancient Greek elegiac poet of the Hellenistic period, said to be a pupil of Philitas of Cos; the dates of his life and work are all but lost, but Philitas is supposed to have been born c. 340 BC.
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