Ibycus became famous not just for his poetry but also for events in his life, largely the stuff of legend: the testimonia are difficult to interpret and very few biographical facts are actually known.

Life

The Byzantine encyclopaedia Suda represents a good example of a problematic biography, here translated by David Campbell:

Suda's chronology has been dismissed as "muddled" since it makes Ibycus about a generation older than Anacreon,

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