Die Kraniche des Ibykus
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The Cranes of Ibycus
(Die Kraniche des Ibykus) is a ballad by Friedrich Schiller
, written in 1797, the year of his friendly ballad competition with Goethe. It is set in the 6th century BC.
Ibycus
Ibycus , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets...
(Die Kraniche des Ibykus) is a ballad by Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, written in 1797, the year of his friendly ballad competition with Goethe. It is set in the 6th century BC.