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Greek Literature (Lyric)
The Age of Lyric Poetry, 700-450 B.C.E.
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Classics
10th Grade
02/08/2009
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Archilochus of Paros
 Definition
[Invented Iamb]
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The Melics
 Definition
Solo Lyric Poetry
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Alcaeus of Lesbos
 Definition
[Ten books of anti-democracy lyric]
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Sappho of Lesbos
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[The Tenth Muse]
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Callinus of Ephesus
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[Exhorting Ephesians to repel an invasion]
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Tyrtaeus of Lesbos
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[Exhorting poetry for the Spartans]
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Mimnermus of Colophon
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[Founder of 'Erotic Elegy']
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Solon of Athens
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[Lawgiver of Athens]
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Simonides of Ceos
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Elegiac Couplet for Spartans at Themapylae
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Pindar of Thebes
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Epinicia
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