Tyrtæus

Role: elegiac poet · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 6

Book 4 · Chapter 6

• with Theopompus (Tyrtæus composed elegiac lines praising or commemorating Theopompus.) “as the elegiac lines of Tyrtæus bear me out, ‘To our king Theopompus god-beloved, Through whom we took Messene spacious town.’”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.