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Cleobulus sixth century BC poet, one of the Seven Sages of Greece; Cleophon (poet) (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn), Athenian tragic poet who flourished in the 4th century BC; Corinna (or Korinna) poet traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC; Cratinus poet of Old Comedy; Cratinus the Younger poet of Middle Comedy
The Wine-Dark Sea (1966) a short story by Robert Aickman; The Wine-Dark Sea (1993) a novel by Patrick O'Brian; The Body of Myth (1994) a book by J. Nigro Sansonese on shamanic trance where Wine-Dark Sea is intended as a sensory trigger for trance; The Port-Wine Sea: A Parody (1999) a parody novel by Susan Wenger of O'Brian's character Captain ...
Alcaeus and Sappho (Brygos Painter, Attic red-figure kalathos, c. 470 BC). Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek.Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre.
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period , are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey , set in an idealized archaic past today identified as ...
Hesiod (/ ˈ h iː s i ə d / HEE-see-əd or / ˈ h ɛ s i ə d / HEH-see-əd; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Canaäd, an epic poem reconstructing Canaanite mythology, set during the Late Bronze Age. Epic of Bamana Segu, oral epic of the Bambara people, composed in the 19th century and recorded in the 20th century; Epic of Darkness, tales and legends of primeval China; Epic of Jangar, poem of the Oirat people
He wrote six books of choral poetry, most of which is now lost; his poetry survives in quotation from other ancient authors and on fragmentary papyri discovered in Egypt. His poetry was composed in the local Doric dialect with Homeric influences. Based on his surviving fragments, his poetry was mostly hymns, and seems to have been composed in ...
Corinna's poetry often reworks well-known myths to include details not known from any other sources. Though respected in her hometown, Tanagra, and popular in ancient Rome, modern critics have often regarded her as parochial and dull; her poetry is nonetheless of interest as she is one of the few female poets from ancient Greece whose work ...