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Almost a mythical person, a former slave, writer of a fables collection, which have influenced children’s education since the antiquity until contemporary times due to their inspirational content. |
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Lyric poet from Teos (c. 570-485 BC). Only fragments of his verse, which was in praise of love and symposium and influenced the poetry of the Hellenistic and Roman period, have survived. He lived at the court of Polycrates of Samos and later near Hipparchus in Athens. He died very old in Athens or Teos after he had previously visited Thessaly. |
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Probably the earliest elegiac poet. He was born and lived in Ephesus in the 7th c. BC. Few works have survived in heroic tone and Homeric style. |
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Heraclitus of Halicarnassus |
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A lyric poet from Cyzicus, who mainly wrote paeans. He composed poems for Antigonus I and Demetrius Poliorcetes. His only surviving work is a prosodion in trimetre with interjecting verses in ithyphallic metre, handed down to us by Athenaeus. |
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