Concept

Elegiac couplet

Overview

poetic form used by Greek lyric poets

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Elegiac couplet

• Xenophanes

Related ideas

• Epigram
• Classical Athens
• Herodotus
• Homer
• Alcuin
• John Milton
• Library of Alexandria
• Apuleius
• Drama
• Colophon (city)
• Plato
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Aristotle
• Ionians
• Sparta
• Ovid
• Hellenistic period
• Catullus
• Solon
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Friedrich Schiller
• Dactylic hexameter
• Medieval Latin
• Epic poetry

Place in the tradition

Part of Xenophanes.

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