Bacchylides (lived early 5th century BC)

Greek lyric poet, born at Iulis on the island of Ceos. He was a nephew of Simonides, and lived for some time with his uncle and Pindar at the court of Hieron I at Syracuse. Nothing was known of his poetry until the discovery in 1896 at Oxyrhynchus of a papyrus containing 14 odes and six dithyrambs (choral hymns).