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edit] Early life. He was born at Iulis, in the island of Ceos. His father’s name was probably Meidon; his mother was a sister of Simonides, himself a native of Iulis. Eusebius ...
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Bacchylides (băkĭl`ĭdēz), fl. c.470 B.C., Greek lyric poet, b. Ceos; nephew of Simonides of Ceos. A contemporary of Pindar, he was patronized by Hiero I.
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Greek lyric poet, born at Iulis on the island of Ceos. He was a nephew of Simonides, and lived for some time with his uncle and Pindar at the court of Hieron I at Syracuse.

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Bacchylides (lived about 5th century bc), Greek poet, born on the Aegean island of Ceos (now Kéa). Although admired by the Roman poet Horace, his works were later considered uninspired and ordinary. In 1896 the British Museum (London) acquired fragments of a papyrus of Bacchylides. Pieced together they came to 1,070 lines, written in a simple and clear style with a wealth of picturesque detail. His work constitutes odes, paeans, and hymns and the only extant specimens of the dithyramb, a type of Greek lyric poetry.