Bacchylides
Bacchylides (c.520–450 BC),lyric poet, of Iulis in Ceos (mod. Kea), son of Midon (or Midylus, Etym. Magn 582, 20), nephew of Simonides (Strabo 486, Suidas, entry under ‘Bakchulidēs’). His floruit was given as 480 by Chron. Pasch 162b (304. 6), as 467 and 451 by Eusebius–Jerome (the entry in Eusebius, Chronica Ol. 87.2 = 431 BC, refers to a flute-player Bacchylides mentioned by the comic poet Plato in his Sophistai, fr. 149 R. Kassel and C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci 7. 494, see G. Fatouros, Philologus 1961, 147). The assumption that he was younger than Pindar (Eustathius Eustathii prooemium commentariorum Pindaricorum 25 = scholiast Pindar 3, p. 297. 13 Dr.) is unfounded and unlikely in view of the early date of his poem in praise of the young prince Alexander, son of Amyntas (fr. 20b. B. Snell...
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