Mimnermus

Mimnermus in Wikipedia

Mimnermus (Greek: Μίμνερμος, Mímnermos) of Colophon was a Greek elegiac poet from Colophon, who flourished about 630-600 BC. Life and work Mimnermus lived in the troubled time when the Ionic cities of Asia Minor were struggling to maintain themselves against the rising power of the Lydian kings. One of the extant fragments of his poems refers to t...

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Mimnermus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Μίμνερμος). A native of Colophon or Smyrna; and creator of the erotic type of Greek elegy, an older contemporary of Solon. He flourished about B.C. 630-600. He gave his collection of love elegies the name of the beautiful fluteplayer Nanno, who on account of his advanced age would not return his love. There are only a few fragments of his poems le...

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