Bacchylides

Bacchylides, a Greek lyric poet and contemporary of Pindar, who flourished in the 5th century B.C. at the court of Hiero of Syracuse. A few fragments of his epinikian odes have long been known. But in 1896, on a papyrus brought from Egypt to the British Museum, Dr Kenyon deciphered 1070 lines and part of nearly 200 more. Some twenty odes were thus recovered, containing much that is charming, but nothing comparable for power to Pindar. See Kenyon's edition of the text (1897), and the prose translation by G. Poste (1898).