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Monody is a kind of lyric poetry that was developed on the Aegean islands during the
Sappho lived at the end of the 7th and during the first half of the The ancient Greeks considered Alcaeus' style similar to political oratory. Undoubtedly, he was inspired by the turbulent social and political scene of Lesbos. He was descended from an aristocratic family and was banished three times, until he was forgiven by Pittacus, despite the fact that in his poems he inveighed against him as well. Besides political issues he also dealt with love, symposium and religion. |
Ibycus wrote in a rich and sensitive style and praised young male beauty. Like Sappho who wrote about the girls she loved, thus Ibycus expressed his love for Euryalus with laudatory verses. Finally, Anacreon, after he participated in the colonization of Abdera, lived in the court of Polycrates in Samos, under the protection of Hipparchus in Athens and most probably in the court of Echecratidas in Thessaly. Most of his poems deal with love and wine. Without attaining the grace of Ibycus, they have a directness and a playful disposition, which made them popular for several centuries after his death.
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