The Symposium: a tradition of private performance of songs

The world of lyric & mythic allusion

Xenophanes, late 6th century B.C. (on the symposium)

Ibycus, late 6th century B.C. (love poet)

Sappho, late 7th and early 6th century B.C. (love poetess)

Pindar, late 6th and early 5th century B.C. (victory odes)

Precursors to later Greek lyric poetry (Hellenistic writers), Roman lyric (Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Horace, Ovid), and thus straight through to the English Romantics (Shelly, Byron, Keats) and post-Romantics (Yeats, Riding)