biography
pronunciation:
[bakilideez]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (5th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Greek lyric poet, the nephew of Simonides of Ceos, and a contemporary of Pindar in Hiero's court at Syracuse. Fragments of his Epinician Odes (written to celebrate victories in the great athletic festivals) were discovered in 1896. |
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