Ancient Greek poetry

thumb|right|Erato on an antique fresco from Pompeii In Greek mythology, Erato (; ) is one of the Muses, associated with erotic lyric poetry. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica.

Euterpe (; , from + ) was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music. In late Classical times, she was named muse of lyric poetry. She has been called "Giver of delight" by ancient poets.

An idyll (, ; ; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια).

thumb|The beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, 15th century manuscript, Vatican Library An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical genre thought of as evoking a pastoral scene.

poetic form used by Greek lyric poets

Anacreontics are verses in a metre used by the Greek poet Anacreon in his poems dealing with love and wine. His later Greek imitators (whose surviving poems are known as the Anacreontea) took up the same themes and used the Anacreontic meter. In modern poetry, Anacreontics are short lyrical pieces that keep the Anacreontic subject matter but not the metre.

thumb|A sleeping Ariadne's abandonment by [[Theseus is the topic of an elaborate ecphrasis in Catullus 64, the most famous extant epyllion. (Roman copy of a 2nd-century BCE Greek original; Villa Corsini.)]] In classical studies the term epyllion (Ancient Greek: , plural: , ) refers to a comparatively short narrative poem (or discrete episode within a longer work) that shows formal affinities with epic, but betrays a preoccupation with themes and poetic techniques that are not generally or, at least, primarily characteristic of epic proper.

thumb|150px|In addition to epinikia, a victorious athlete might be honored with a statue, as with this charioteer found at Delphi, probably a champion driver at the [[Pythian Games]] The epinikion or epinicion (: epinikia or epinicia, Greek , from epi-, "on" and nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known in English as a victory ode. In ancient Greece, the epinikion most often took the form of a choral lyric, commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Major poets in the genre are

body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek

line of poetry following a particular matrical pattern; the form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres

Paraklausithyron () is a motif in Greek and especially Augustan love elegy, as well as in troubadour poetry.

thumb|The journey of Odysseus presented in [[Homer's Odyssey is a quintessential example of in Ancient Greek literature.]]

type of lyric poetry that was created by the ancient Greeks and performed by choruses

genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and featured insulting and obscene language and sometimes it is referred to as "blame poetry"

4-syllable metrical foot of light-light-heavy-heavy (⏑⏑‒‒); occurs in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; e.g: Mĭsĕrārūm (e)st nĕqu(e) ămōrī dărĕ lūdūm nĕquĕ dūlcī (Horace)

'''' (, meaning "funeral song"), is a song of lamentation in ancient Greece, a minor deity personifying this song in Greek mythology, and an epithet of Linus. He was the son of Apollo and Calliope, and the inventor of the song Ialemus'' (ἰάλεμος), which was a kind of dirge, or at any rate a song of a very serious and mournful character, and is only mentioned as sung on most melancholy occasions. (Aeschyl. Suppl. 106; Eurip, Herc. Fur. 109, SuppL 283.) In later times, this kind of poetry lost its popularity, and was ridiculed by the comic poets. Ialemus then became synonymous with cold and fros

meaningful opinions put into verse to aid the memory

Glyconic (from Glycon, a Greek lyric poet) is a form of meter in classical Greek and Latin poetry. The glyconic line is the most basic and most commonly used form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with others.

Spoudaiogeloion () denotes the mixture of serious and comical elements stylistically. The word comes from the Greek σπουδαῖον spoudaion, "serious", and γελοῖον geloion, "comical".

aquatic feature in Greek mythology

Class of Ancient Greek poetic form