Melanippides
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Melanippides of Melos (), one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the use of dithyramb, and an exponent of the "new music."
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- The Danaïds
· 1965
- Testimonia
· 1993
- Fragments
· 1993
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- Pauly–Wissowa
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- Philoxenus of Cythera
- date of birth
- 0520-01-01
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- Ancient Greek
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- Milos
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Melanippides of Melos (), one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the use of dithyramb, and an exponent of the "new music."
==Biography== The life of Melanippides can only be fixed within rather uncertain limits. He is thought to have flourished around the middle of the 5th-century BC. He was younger than Lasus of Hermione (Plut. Mus. p. 1141, c.), and younger than Diagoras of Melos. He was a contemporary of the comic poet Pherecrates. He lived for some time at the court of Archelaus of Macedon, and died there in around 412 BC.
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