Tyrtaeus | 7th century BC, Spartan, warrior poet | Britannica
WEBTyrtaeus (flourished middle of the 7th century bc, Sparta [Greece]) was a Greek elegiac poet, author of stirring poetry on military themes supposedly composed to help Sparta win the Second Messenian War.
The Elegiac Poems of Tyrtaeus - Perseus Digital Library
WEBEveryone in Greece knows that the general they took from our city was Tyrtaeus, by whose aid, with a wisdom that looked far beyond the dangers of that day, they both defeated their enemies and established their system of education.
Tyrtaeus: The ancient poet who led Sparta’s army to greatness
WEBIn the middle of the 7th century BC, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta was engulfed in the Second Messenian War. It would become a pivotal conflict that would define Sparta’s future military and social structure. It was at this time that a poet named Tyrtaeus emerged.
Chapter 11. Tyrtaeus: The Lame General - The Center for Hellenic Studies
WEBTyrtaeus: The Lame General. Virtually all critics agree that the story of Tyrtaeus, in which the lame Athenian schoolmaster is sent to the Spartans as a joke, only to become their general in the Second Messenian War, is unhistorical—a piece of Attic propaganda, perhaps, to account for the fact that the Spartans even produced a poet. [1] . H. J.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
WEBTyrtaeus *Turtai=os , (or Τύρταιος ), son of Archembrotus, the celebrated poet, who assisted the Spartans in the Second Messenian War, was the second in order of time of the Greek elegiac poets, Callinus being the first.
Tyrtaeus - Oxford Reference
WEBSpartan elegiac poet of the mid‐7th cent. bc. His works are said to have filled five books; some 250 lines or parts of lines survive in quotations and papyri. They throw light on two crises affecting Sparta at the time. One was civic unrest that threatened the authority of the kings and elders.
WEBAt some point during the Second Messenian War, the poet-fighter Tyrtaeus, hardly the most brilliant or talented of those elegiac writers whose works have so meagerly survived, but certainly one of the most intriguing and influential, composed a poem (9 Diehl), 44 lines long, which has earned for itself an almost universal acknowledgement as land...
Tyrtaeus - Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists
WEBJun 5, 2012 — Summary. A seventh-century poet of Sparta, Tyrtaeus was said to have been a general in the second Messenian War, during which Sparta subjugated Messene. Most of his surviving poetry consists of exhortations to combat, but he also wrote a poem on the Spartan constitution.
Tyrtaeus | Oxford Classical Dictionary
WEBTyrtaeus, Spartan elegiac poet of the mid-7th cent. bce. His works are said to have filled five books; some 250 lines or parts of lines survive in quotations and papyri. They are of great historical interest in relation to two crises affecting Sparta at the time.
Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, volume 1, Tyrtaeus - Perseus …
WEB“Tyrtaeus: —（1） Son of Archembrotus, a Laconian or a Milesian, writer of Elegy and fluteplayer, who is said to have encouraged the Lacedaemonians by his songs in their war with the Messenians, and in this way to have given them the upper hand.
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