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  Mimnermus
Mimnermus finishes by blaming this state of affairs on the immortal gods, since in poem #1 "Such a painful thing god has made of old age".
Additionally, the poems differ regarding the details of what befalls the aged; in poem #1, Mimnermus states that a man becomes "hateful to boys" and "dishonoured by women" in his old age, whereas poem #2 lists more serious consequences, such as poverty, grieving over one’s lack of children, and "soul-destroying disease".
From this point on, we are treated rather to Mimnermus’ unhappy views on the aging process.
www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/mimnermus.html   (1194 words)

  
 Mimnermus
Mimnermus of Colophon, Greek elegiac poet, flourished about 630[?]-600 BC.
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.
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.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mimnermus.html   (141 words)

  
 Mimnermus - LoveToKnow 1911
MIMNERMUS of Colophon, Greek elegiac poet, flourished about 630-600 B.C. His life fell in the troubled time when the Ionic cities of Asia Minor were struggling to mantain themselves against the rising power of the Lydian kings.
But his most important poems were a set of elegies addressed to a fluteplayer named Nanno, collected in two books called after her name.
Mimnermus was the first to make the elegiac verse the vehicle for love-poetry.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mimnermus   (145 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.07.03
In this light, Mimnermus stands with Hipponax and Antimachus as an early poet whose exiguous literary remains are overshadowed by an exalted reputation.
That our understanding of Mimnermus does not emerge radically altered should not be regarded as a failing; A.'s achievement lies in the collection and consolidation of the pertinent material, thus providing a firm basis for future scholarship.
So far as Mimnermus' writings are concerned, A. contends plausibly that the Alexandrian edition filled no more than a single papyrus roll and that Nanno was a general title for the collection of Mimnermus' poems which comprised not only erotic and sympotic elegy, but also the Smyrneis.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.07.03.html   (3895 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1089 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The numerous compositions of Mimnermus (Suidas, who calls him M(ue/ty**/os, says eypatye fii§\ia iro\\d) were preserved for several centuries, comprised in two books, until they were burnt, together with most of the other monuments of the erotic poetry of the Greeks, by the Byzantine monks.
Archiilochus had, indeed, occasionally employed the elegy for strains of lamentation, but Mimnermus was the first who systematically made it the vehicle for plaintive, mournful, and erotic strains.
Since the character which Mimnermus gave to elegiac poetry remained ever after its predominant characteristic, he is sometimes erroneously spoken of as the inventor of the elegy.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2197.html   (786 words)

  
 A Manual of Greek Literature, page 75   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He was a flute-player as well as a poet,1 and in setting his poems to music he made use of the plaintive melody called the Nomos kradias.
The doctrines inculcated are sound, often original and striking ; are expressed with a vigor and terseness sometimes bordering on abruptness, and are illustrated by some spirited imagery.
He comments, in equally emphatic but less querulous terms than Mimnermus, on the ephemeral nature of human enjoyments ; dwells on the blessings of a clear conscience and a contented mind; condemning the insatiable thirst of mortals for the pos­session of a happiness beyond their reach, and their wayward caprice in its pursuit.
www.ancientlibrary.com /greek-lit/0089.html   (464 words)

  
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Accordingly, a new edition of Mimnermus with full commentary--the first devoted solely to this poet--needs no justification.
Mimnermus' A)/TIMASTOS GUNAICI/N is very likely sound, but I crave some discussion of the meaning of the phrase.
A. rejects the view that Mimnermus is here referring to ignorance of evil (or ignorance of the difference between good and evil), preferring to see in the passage a reference to "ignorance of imminent, fateful evil" (p.
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 Colophon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Founded by Andracmon of Pylos, it was at the acme of its prosperity in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. up to the epoch of its sack by Gyges of Lydia in 665.
The forts by which Ephesus protected itself against Colophonian invasion are still to be seen on the hills north of the Caystrus.
Dates: Mimnermus was active in the latter half of the seventh century B.C. Mimnermus of Colophon - Archaic Greek Elegiac Poet
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 Mimnermus: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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 What is Elegy?
This rhythm seems to have commended itself for use in poems on a scale smaller than epic, although long narrative poems in elegiac couplets are not unknown: Semonides is said to have used the metre for his History of Samos, and Mimnermus used it for his Smyrneis.
The poem may be as short [as] an epigram, but in many cases it is much longer; Solon 13 attains a length of 76 lines, and it is attested that his Salamis was of a hundred.
Mimnermus wrote a Smyrneis, which apparently told the tale of the Smyrnaeans' victory against Gyges; Simonides wrote an elegy on the battle of Salamis.
classics.rutgers.edu /Lat327/def.html   (2040 words)

  
 Ionica
But perhaps the little fancy called “Mimnermus in Church” is the best known, and the one which will best serve to introduce us to the character of Cory.
Mimnermus was an old Greek philosopher and poet who thought that all things in the world are temporary, that all hope of a future life is vain, that there is nothing worth existing for except love, and that without affection one were better dead.
The melancholy of the latter part of the composition is the same melancholy to be found in “Mimnermus in Church,” the first of Cory’s poems which we read together.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.12.16
Two hermeneutical issues in early Greek lyric, with special reference to Mimnermus.
In this section he begins with a text and translation of frr.1 and 2 of Mimnermus, together with a commentary on selected passages.
In conclusion, a number of the points Slings makes are problematic, such as his assumption that Solon must have been eighty when in fr.20 he responded to Mimnermus' wish to die at sixty, but on the whole this pamphlet is more valuable than many books containing hundreds of pages.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-12-16.html   (341 words)

  
 [2002: November] Mummies, Mimnermus, Pindar and Journal Papers
In the course of working on Aoidoi.org, I find myself regularly running into nasty problems of copyright.
For now, I have used only Tyler's versions of the texts, even when the reading is, to my admittedly inexperienced eye, inferior to readings given in Campbell's book.
I have given Campbell's readings in the notes for two lines so far, which I of course attribute to him (once for Mimnermus, Nanno 1, line 4 [1], one word order change in Anacreon).
omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2002/11/0541.php   (477 words)

  
 Mimnermus * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Mimnermus * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Mimnermus wrote love poems and was called Liguastades which was not necessarily a complementary term, it implies a Murky Flame.
Cut and paste the following text for use in a paper or electronic document report.
www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Mimnermus_1.html   (230 words)

  
 Heinen: Propertius IV:  Callimachus Reborn in Rome
Scholars have examined the influence of Mimnermus and Callimachus on Propertius, but most commentators note only a tenuous link between Propertius' last book and the subject matter of such Roman antiquarians as Varro, Cornelius Nepos, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine Propertius' title as Callimachus Romanus through the use of diction in order to uncover a close relationship to antiquarian literature.
He shifts from "learned Athens" (III.21.1) and the Alexandrian ascetic, and moves towards the Roman counterparts of Mimnermus and Philetas of Cos.
www.camws.org /meeting/2006/abstracts/heinen.html   (423 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mimnermus: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The fragments of Mimnermus: Text and commentary (Palingenesia) by Archibald Allen (Unknown Binding - 1993)
Freethought and literature by Mimnermus (Unknown Binding - 1917)
The scanty fragments of his near-contemporaries, Tyrtaeus, Callinus, and Mimnermus, who also composed poetry for the symposion, hardly suggest similar...
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 Aucassin and Nicolete - Introduction
{2} The story-teller is no Mimnermus, Love and Youth are the best things he knew,--"deport du viel caitif,"-- and now he has "come to forty years," and now they are with him no longer.
But he does not lament like Mimnermus, like Alcman, like Llwyarch Hen.
May I die!" says Mimnermus, "when I am no more conversant with these, with secret love, and gracious gifts, and the bed of desire." And Alcman, when his limbs waver beneath him, is only saddened by the faces and voices of girls, and would change his lot for the sea-birds." {3}
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/epics/AucassinandNicolete/Chap0.html   (1749 words)

  
 Kaleidoscope - Sauerbeck Page 10
For most of my time in the reading room, I look over the Greek or make a vocabulary list, but overall, I don't get much done.
I suppose that I can attribute my lack of motivation to not being able to really connect to Herodotus in the way that I have been able to connect with some Greek poets, such as Mimnermus or Philodemos.
Their language seems near to me in a way so that I can easily hear how the tonal qualities would be reproduced in English.
www.uky.edu /Kaleidoscope/fall2003/sauerbeck/page10.htm   (694 words)

  
 Poetry X » Poetry Archives » William (Johnson) Cory » "Mimnermus In Church" » CBE Citation
Poetry X » Poetry Archives » William (Johnson) Cory » "Mimnermus In Church" » CBE Citation
Home » Poetry Archives » Poets » William (Johnson) Cory » “Mimnermus In Church” » CBE Citation
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 Mimnermus - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
One collection was called Nanno, for a girl he loved.
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Tyrtaeus, ; Solon, Theognis, Mimnermus; Douglas Gerber (trans)
Greek Elegiac Poetry from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C.: Tyrtaeus, Theognis, Mimnermus (L258N)
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 Greek 4023 Spring, 2006. Professor Daniel B. Levine University of Arkansas Greek Poetry Schedule of Readings
This term will be an exciting survey of some of the earliest poets to express themselves in verse -- after the Homeric and Hesiodic epics.
We will read the fragments of several poets in English in their entierty, and many of the original verses of Archilochus, Hipponax, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Semonides, Solon, Xenophanes, Sappho, and Alcaeus.
As you can see from the schedule below, we will read about the poets from ancient testimonia in the Loeb Classical Library volumes, which have collected what ancient sources said about each author.
www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/GreekPoetry2006Schedule.html   (566 words)

  
 Tom Jenkins' Course Page
We will then study the poetry of e.g.
Sappho, Theognis, and Mimnermus against the theorization of Love propounded by Plato.
The course ends with Anne Carson's fantasia on classical love, Autobiography of Red (a verse novel version of fragments of Stesichorus).
www.trinity.edu /tjenkins/courses.html   (177 words)

  
 Department of Classics - Courses
A survey of archaic and classical Greek lyric and elegiac poetry, with a special emphasis on the topic of eros, love.
Authors will include Sappho, Mimnermus, Anacreon, Tyrtaeus, Archilochus, Anacreon, Ibycus and Euripides.
We will also examine the later Greek tradition of shorter love poems.
www.princeton.edu /~classics/courses/archive/spring05-grad.html   (374 words)

  
 Hudson-Williams (1987) Early Greek elegy: The elegiac fragments of Callinus, Archilochus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon, ...
Hudson-Williams (1987) Early Greek elegy: The elegiac fragments of Callinus, Archilochus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon, Xenophanes, and others
Early Greek elegy: The elegiac fragments of Callinus, Archilochus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus, Solon, Xenophanes, and others
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 Find in a Library: The fragments of Mimnermus : text and commentary
The fragments of Mimnermus : text and commentary
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 Mimnermus in Church - William Johnson Cory Poems - Poems and Poetry
Mimnermus in Church - William Johnson Cory Poems - Poems and Poetry
So sweet, I fain would breathe it still;
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 [2002: November] Re: Mummies, Mimnermus, Pindar and Journal Papers
[2002: November] Re: Mummies, Mimnermus, Pindar and Journal Papers
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 Amazon.ca: Greek Elegy and Iambus, Volume I : Elegiac Poets from Callinus to Critias (including Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Amazon.ca: Greek Elegy and Iambus, Volume I : Elegiac Poets from Callinus to Critias (including Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Solon, Phocylides, Xenophanes, Theognis): Books: Tyrtaeus,Callinus,Solon,Theognis,J. Edmonds
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Greek Elegy and Iambus, Volume I : Elegiac Poets from Callinus to Critias (including Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Solon, Phocylides, Xenophanes, Theognis) (Hardcover)
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 Corhali program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mark Buchan (Princeton) Mimnermus - and the collective/individual voice
Sylvie Galhac (Lille) The representation of old age in Homer and Mimnermus
Mata Dova (Hellenic College/Harvard): People, flowers and leaves: images of mortality in Homer and Mimnermus
www.arts.cornell.edu /Classics/Faculty/Rusten/program.htm   (360 words)

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