Mimnermus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:04 1 Life and work
00:05:04 2 Nanno
00:07:15 3 Poetic style
00:10:00 3.1 Comments by other poets
00:10:09 3.1.1 Solon
00:10:25 3.1.2 Hermesianax
00:10:42 3.1.3 Callimachus
00:11:07 3.1.4 Propertius
00:11:15 3.1.5 Horace
00:11:22 4 Translations



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Mimnermus (Greek: Μίμνερμος Mímnermos) was a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia, who flourished about 630–600 BC. He was strongly influenced by the example of Homer yet he wrote short poems suitable for performance at drinking parties and was remembered by ancient authorities chiefly as a love poet. Mimnermus in turn exerted a strong influence on Hellenistic poets such as Callimachus and thus also on Roman poets such as Propertius, who even preferred him to Homer for his eloquence on love themes (see Comments by other poets below). His work was collected by Alexandrian scholars in just two "books" (relatively few compared for example with the twenty-six books for Stesichorus) and today only small fragments survive. The fragments confirm the ancient estimate of him as a "consummate poet" but also indicate that he was a "sturdier character" than the indulgent love poet he was assumed to be by various ancient commentators. Almost no reliable, biographical details have been recorded. One ancient account linked him romantically with a flute girl who subsequently gave her name, Nanno, to one of his two books.