Βακχυλίδης, a famous Greek lyric poet, born at Iulis in Ceos, was the nephew of Simonides, and flourished about 470 years before Christ. He resided long at the court of Hiero of Syracuse with Simonides and Pindar, and wrote odes, hymns, and epigrams, of which some fragments are published in the first volume of Brunck's Analecta; by Neue, Bacchylidis Cei Fragm.; and by Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci.