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Bacchylides meaning

An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 5th century Ancient Greek lyric poet.

Using Bacchylides

  • The main meaning on this page is: An Ancient Greek name, particularly borne by a 5th century Ancient Greek lyric poet.

Context around Bacchylides

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

literature 1× lyrics 1× treat 1× fagles 1×

Often after:

plays 1× celebrated 1× prefers 1× ode 1× complete 1× composed 1×

Sentence patterns with Bacchylides

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

1 and bacchylides s ode 1× bacchylides celebrated such 1× bacchylides had become 1× bacchylides prefers to 1× case that bacchylides s image 1× celebrated by bacchylides ode 3 1× choral lyrics bacchylides was probably 1× greek literature bacchylides plays of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

bacchylides celebrated such 1× bacchylides had become 1× bacchylides prefers to 1× campbell p 414 1× most modern scholars 1× ode 5 bacchylides 1×

Common sentence endings:

around 518 bc 1× bacchylides ode 3 1× better than sappho 1× choirs awaited instruction 1× depth of pindar 1× favourite with readers 1×

Words around Bacchylides

Just before it in the word index:

bacchus 48 bacchu 2 bacchides 2 bacchic 4 baccharis 2 bacchanalias 2

Just after it in the word index:

bacco 4 baccus 6 bace 2 bacede 2 bacerra 3 baceth 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaronson 18 abai 18 abass 18 abatements 18 abdulfatah 18 abebe 18

Corpus analysis for Bacchylides

  • In this selection, "bacchylides" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, literature, lyrics, treat, plays, celebrated and prefers stand out and add context to how "bacchylides" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1 and bacchylides s ode and bacchylides celebrated such. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "bacchylides" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with bacchylides

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Robert Fagles, Bacchylides: Complete Poems, Yale University Press (1961). (9 words)

Only two of the Nine Lyric Poets ( Pindar and Bacchylides ) have survived better than Sappho. (15 words)

Most modern scholars however treat Bacchylides as an exact contemporary of Pindar, placing his birth around 518 BC. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Soon he was competing with Pindar for commissions from the leading families of Aegina and, in 476 BC, their rivalry seems to have reached the highest levels when Bacchylides composed an ode celebrating Hieron's first victory at the Olympian Games (Ode 5). (43 words)

Ode 5 Bacchylides has often been compared unflatteringly with Pindar, as for example by the French critic, Henri Weil : "There is no doubt that he fails of the elevation, and also of the depth, of Pindar. (36 words)

Pindar was not commissioned to celebrate Hieron's subsequent victory in the chariot race at the Olympic Games in 468 BC – this, the most prestigious of Hieron's victories, was however celebrated by Bacchylides (Ode 3). (36 words)

Example sentences (14)

As is often the case with ancient Greek literature, Bacchylides plays of the audience’s knowledge of Homer without repeating a scene told by Homer.

Bacchylides celebrated such victories by Theseus in one of his dithyrambs, sung in the form of a dialogue between chorus and chorus-leader (poem 18).

Bacchylides had become, almost overnight, among the best represented poets of the canonic nine, with about half as many extant verses as Pindar, adding about a hundred new words to Greek lexicons.

Bacchylides prefers to observe the gentler play of shadow and sadness over the sensuous surface of his brilliant world.

Campbell, p. 414 As a composer of choral lyrics, Bacchylides was probably responsible also for the performance, involving him in frequent travel to venues where musicians and choirs awaited instruction.

Most modern scholars however treat Bacchylides as an exact contemporary of Pindar, placing his birth around 518 BC.

Ode 5 Bacchylides has often been compared unflatteringly with Pindar, as for example by the French critic, Henri Weil : "There is no doubt that he fails of the elevation, and also of the depth, of Pindar.

Only two of the Nine Lyric Poets ( Pindar and Bacchylides ) have survived better than Sappho.

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Pindar, p. 16 It is possible in that case that Bacchylides's image of himself as an eagle in Ode 5 was a retort to Pindar.

Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 and Bacchylides's Ode 5 differ also in their description of the race – while Pindar's reference to Pherenicus is slight and general (".

Pindar was not commissioned to celebrate Hieron's subsequent victory in the chariot race at the Olympic Games in 468 BC – this, the most prestigious of Hieron's victories, was however celebrated by Bacchylides (Ode 3).

Robert Fagles, Bacchylides: Complete Poems, Yale University Press (1961).

Soon he was competing with Pindar for commissions from the leading families of Aegina and, in 476 BC, their rivalry seems to have reached the highest levels when Bacchylides composed an ode celebrating Hieron's first victory at the Olympian Games (Ode 5).

The distinctive merits of Bacchylides, his transparent clearness, his gift of narrative, his felicity in detail, the easy flow of his elegant verse, rather fitted him to become a favourite with readers..

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