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    7th century—Mimnermus evidently hoped thereby to strengthen his countrymen's resolve against further Lydian encroachments. The name "Mimnermus" might have...
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  • Mimnermus in Church is a poem written by William Johnson Cory. William Johnson was an Eton College master and author of the lyrics to the "Eton Boating...
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  • 24; Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 369. Gantz, p. 30; Eumelus fr. 17 West; Mimnermus fr. 12 Gerber; Stesichorus fr. S 17 Campbell [= 185 Poetae Melici Graeci];...
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    Second Semichorus exit with the body of Eteocles. The 7th-century BC poet Mimnermus accounts that Ismene was murdered by Tydeus, one of the Seven. In this...
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    Bacchylides Euripides Herodotus Hesiod Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus Panyassis Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles...
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    forgetfulness of pain and the cessation of obligations. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early deities Ouranos...
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  • Hesiod (the Theogony and the Works and Days), and surviving fragments from Mimnermus. In the 5th century BC, Greek thinkers began to add new features to this...
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  • appalled that she changed her mind and let Tydeus die. The 7th century poet Mimnermus attributes the murder of Ismene, the sister of Antigone, to Tydeus. No...
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    Mimnermus of Colophon (630BC) details a flat Earth model, with the sun (Helios) bathing at the edges of Oceanus that surround the Earth (Mimnermus, frg...
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  • for conveying any strong emotion. At the end of the 7th century BCE, Mimnermus of Colophon struck on the innovation of using the verse for erotic poetry...
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