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Greek Elegiac Poets

Friday October 3, 2003
Profiles of elegiac poets of Archaic Greece:
Theognis addressed his elegies to the boy Cyrnus.
Semonides wrote the misogynistic poem comparing women unfavorably with various animals.
Mimnermus was remembered as a love poet.
Tyrtaeus a Spartan who wrote elegies.
Callinus one of the first ancient Greek elegiac poets.

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