The festival that we attended in this episode was at which Ancient Greek city state – the city of Dionysus and home of the great lyric poet Pindar?

At the end of this show we listened to a musical version of Pindar’s First Isthmian Ode. To whom was this ode addressed?

In Fragment 16, Sappho dismisses the world of “horsemen,” “ships,” “chariots,” and “foot-soldiers arrayed in armor,” all for the sake of:

Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and especially his later poem The Prelude are extended autobiographical musings, meant to be read in book form. Greek lyric poetry was generally:

Some of Archilochus’ poetry is:

In the year 582 BCE, in which this show was set, which emergent annual events were we and the other Boeotian partygoers particularly excited about?

Aphrodite promises this poet, “For if she flees now, soon she shall pursue; / if she refuses presents, she shall give them; / if she does not love, soon she shall love / even against her will.”

In this episode we attended _______ festival, an annual holiday in the late winter or early spring during which the Ancient Greeks celebrated the opening of the previous year’s wine.

First piece of poetry we heard at our 582 BCE party, which would have been nearly ubiquitous in Ancient Greece, was an excerpt from:

The two instruments most commonly used to accompany Greek lyric poetry were: