When the ancient Greeks first sang songs to the accompaniment of the musical instrument called a lyre, they were creating lyric poetry. Lyric poetry came to mean more than just poetry to musical accompaniment, but also poetry about emotions. Shakespeare's sonnet are a popular form of lyric poetry in the more modern world. Elegies were originally mournful poems. This ancient poets picture gallery contains an introduction to a dozen of the most important ancient poets.
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- Sappho - Greek PoetSappho
- Menander - Greek PoetSt Petersburg Hermitage Bust of Menander
- Aeschylus - Greek PlaywrightAeschylus
- Sophocles - Greek PlaywrightSophocles
- Euripides - Greek PlaywrightEuripides
- Aristophanes - Comic Playwright
- Terence - Latin Comic PlaywrightTerence
- Lucretius - Roman Epicurean Philosopher and Epic PoetLucretius
- Catullus - Latin PoetCatullus
- Vergil - Latin PoetVergil
- Horace - Latin PoetHorace
- Ovid - Latin PoetOvid
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