In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

* Agathon ( speech begins 195a ): a tragic poet, host of the banquet, that celebrates the triumph of his first tragedy.

The most famous symposium of all, described in Plato's dialogue of that name ( and rather differently in Xenophon's ) was hosted by the poet Agathon on the occasion of his first victory at the theater contest of the 416 BC Dionysia.

Among the historical male couples, where both partners were adults, are Pausanias of Athens and the tragic poet Agathon, already in his thirties.

After the fall of Athens Choerilus settled at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, where he was the associate of Agathon, Melanippides, and Plato the comic poet.

Both London and Paris hosted powerful philhellenic committees, supported by prominent and wealthy personalities, such as the romantic poet Lord Byron in England ( who died fighting for the Greek cause in 1824 ) and the writers Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo in France.

In 1982, poet James Merrill released an apocalyptic 560-page epic poem entitled The Changing Light at Sandover, which documented two decades of messages dictated from the Ouija board during séances hosted by Merrill and his partner David Noyes Jackson.

Other notable members of the party include: Kinga Dunin ( writer, feminist, editor of Krytyka Polityczna ), Radosław Gawlik ( environmental activist, former deputy minister of the environment ), Zbigniew Marek Hass, Wojciech Koronkiewicz ( poet, journalist, film director ), Izabela Kowalczyk ( art critic ), Bartłomiej Kozek, Aleksandra Kretkowska, Bartosz Lech ( former co-chair of the FYEG ), Jerzy Masłowski, Magdalena Masny, Adam Ostolski ( sociologist, member of Krytyka Polityczna ), Monika Paca, Kazimiera Szczuka ( writer, feminist, hosted the Polish version of The Weakest Link ), Olga Tokarczuk ( writer ), Ludwik Tomiałojć ( ornithologist ).

Local director-actor Jack Brooks hosted a Saturday-morning entertainment program until his sudden death in June 1984, after directing a production of Kismet for the Capuchino Community Theatre that featured Jim Eason as the poet Omar Khayyám.

The Urdu programme was hosted by Abid Ali Baig, who is a poet and writer, who had been working in the broadcasting industry for 30 years in Pakistan ; whereas the Nepali one was hosted by Pushpa Kumar Rai, who had worked in the former British Forces Broadcasting Service for almost 20 years and he is familiar to many Nepalese ears in Hong Kong.

The inn hosted, on occasion, the Australian poet Banjo Patterson in the early 20th century.

* John Sinclair ( poet ) hosted a Jazz program named " Re: Visions " in the late 1970s.

One of Corman's last appearances in the United States was at the 2003 centennial symposium and celebration in southern Wisconsin that honored his friend and fellow poet, Lorine Niedecker.

The Afghan Ministry of Culture and Youth established a national committee which organized an international seminar to celebrate the birth and life of the great ethical philosopher and world-renowned poet.

Being a Cavalier poet, Lovelace wrote to praise a friend or fellow poet, to give advice in grief or love, to define a relationship, to articulate the precise amount of attention a man owes a woman, to celebrate beauty, and to persuade to love.

Archaic elegy was often used for patriotic purposes, to screw courage to the sticking place in times of war and to celebrate national achievements, and there is ample evidence that Mimnermus assumed this role as a poet.

He began to attract note as a poet at school, writing a 30-line set of rhyming couplets to celebrate the wedding of James Hotchkis, the headmaster.

To celebrate the opening of the new works, the poet Ian McMillan was asked to run a poetry workship at Littleworth Grange Primary Learning Centre, where children completed a poem about water treatment for which he supplied the first two lines.

In April 1996, when he was poet laureate, he organized a 6-day conference at the Library of Congress that brought together American nature writers to celebrate writing, the natural world and community.

On May 1 each year, Hawaiians celebrate " Lei Day ," first conceived in 1927 by poet Don Blanding.

Goethe lauded him as a poet among painters, and his work shows some of the sensibilities the Romantics would later celebrate.

In the Book of Taliesin we find a 9th century poem Edmyg Dinbych ( In Praise of Tenby, a town in Pembrokeshire ), probably produced by a court poet in Dyfed to celebrate the New Year ( Welsh: Calan ).

As early as the 1870s, Burns admirers in Atlanta had been meeting in private homes and hotels to celebrate the birthday of the Scottish poet.

Others are modern, composed for a particular event, much as a poet laureate might write a poem to celebrate an event in a Western country.

It is very well possible that some poet used the name Jacob – if it wasn't his name, and an often given name to celebrate the apostle Jacobus who lied buried in Santiago de Compostella – to make the impression that it was written by the famous Jacob van Maerlant.

The Wordsworth Trust is a living memorial set up to celebrate the works of the poet William Wordsworth and his contemporaries.

Metastasio, as Imperial court poet at the court of Vienna, was requested to write the libretto to help celebrate the birthday of Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1733.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

As can readily be seen with the context restored, Barkstead compares his poem about Venus and Adonis (“ my Muse ”) with Shakespeare ’ s, saying that his poetry sung " the withered tree " while Shakespeare ’ s " sung the fair blossom ", and that Shakespeare deserves laurel, the emblem of victory or poetic superiority, but that Barkstead, the lesser poet, deserves only cypress in comparison.

Fond of drinking, convivial company and vain displays of wealth, this aristocrat's proud and capricious dealings with Simonides are demonstrated in a traditional account related by Cicero and Quintilian, according to which the poet was commissioned to write a victory ode for a boxer.

Now Hiero first came to the front in 275 when he was made General: Theocritus speaks of his achievements as still to come, and the silence of the poet would show that Hiero ’ s marriage to Phulistis, his victory over the Mamertines at the Longanus and his election as " King ", events which are ascribed to 270, had not yet taken place.

* Simonides: An eminent lyrical poet, he is quoted from an ode celebrating a victory in a chariot race ( line 406 ).

At the tragic occasion, the president of Club de Regatas Botafogo, Augusto Frederico Schmidt ( also a major Brazilian poet ) spoke: " At this time, I declare to Albano that his last match ended with the victory of his team.

He used Zafar, a part of his name, meaning “ victory ”, as a nom de plume ( takhallus ) as an Urdu poet and wrote many Urdu ghazals under it.

It was in the enthusiasm of this victory when the poet and musician, Perucho Figueredo, composed Cuba ’ s national anthem, the “ Bayamo ”.

Sailing away with the poet's money in his coffers but minus the poet himself, Themistocles soon arrived at the Corinthian Isthmus, where the Greek commanders met to decide who most deserved the prize for valour in their recent victory at Salamis.

He was less productive as a poet than either Ennius or Accius ; and we hear of only about twelve of his plays, founded on Greek subjects ( among them the Antiope, Teucer, Armorum Judicium, Dulorestes, Chryses, Niptra, & c., most of them on subjects connected with the Trojan cycle ), and one praetexta ( Paulus ) written in connexion with the victory of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus at the Battle of Pydna ( 168 BC ), as the Clastidium of Naevius and the Ambracia of Ennius were written in commemoration of great military successes.

America's first major poet, William Cullen Bryant, described the homefield advantage that led to the Patriot victory in one of his poems.

Vikramarjuna Vijaya ( Kannada-ವ ಿ ಕ ್ ರಮ ಾ ರ ್ ಜ ು ನ ವ ಿ ಜಯ ) ( victory of the mighty Arjuna ), also known as Pampa Bharatha is a classic work of the 10th century Jain poet Pampa ( 902-975 AD ).

Philotas ( in Greek Φιλωτας ; lived 5th century BC ) was an ancient Greek dithyrambic poet and musician, the disciple of Philoxenus of Cythera ; he is considered only worthy of notice as having once gained a victory over his great contemporary Timotheus of Miletus.