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MIMNERMUS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 500 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MIMNERMUS of
Colophon
 ,
Greek
  elegiac poet, flourished about 63o-600 B.C. His
life
 
fell
  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 this struggle, and contrasts the present effeminacy of his countrymen with the bravery of those who had once defeated the Lydian king
Gyges
 . But his most important poems were a set of elegies addressed to a
flute
 -player named Nanno, collected in two books called after her name. Mimnermus was the first to make the elegiac verse the vehicle for love-poetry. He set his own poems to the music of the
flute
 , and the poet Hipponax says that he used the melancholy vbos epains, "the fig-branch strain," said to be a
peculiar
  melody, to the accompaniment of which two human purificatory victims were led out of Athens to be sacrificed during the festival of Thargelia (Hesychius, s.v.).
Edition of fragments in T. Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci; see also G. Vanzolini, Mimnermo (1883), a study of the poet, with notes and a metrical version of the fragments.


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