6 sentences with 'poet'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poet and other words derived from it.
• « Enheduanna wrote a series of hymns to the gods that established her as the first female poet in recorded history, praising Innana and, at one point, asking for the gods' help during a period of political turmoil. »
• « Centuries later, the culture of the Mycenaeans would be celebrated in the epic poems (nominally written by the poet Homer, although it is likely that "Homer" is a mythical figure in itself) The Iliad and The Odyssey, which describe the exploits of great Mycenaean heroes such as Agamemnon, Achilles and Odysseus. »
• « The games sought, in the words of one Greek poet, "either the crown of victory or death" (admittedly, that poet indulged in some hyperbole, since there is no evidence that defeated athletes actually committed suicide). »
• « What we do know for certain is that almost no written works survive by female authors - the notable exception being Sappho, a poet of the Archaic period whose works suggest that lesbianism may have been relatively common (her home, the Greek island of Lesbos, is the root of the word lesbian). »
• « The greatest literary work of medieval Islam was in Persian, the Shahnamah of the poet Ferdousi or Firdausi (d. 1020), a mythological account of Persian rulers that reached back into the ancient past and suggested a single cultural and political tradition. »
• « Florentines boasted that even their workers could quote the great poet, and native Florentine, Dante Alighieri (author of The Divine Comedy). »