# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/limenius
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:51:35.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/limenius"
name: "Limenius"
slug: "limenius"
description: "Limenius was an Athenian composer of paeans and prosodia. As creator of the Second Delphic Hymn in 128 BC, he is the earliest known composer in recorded history for a surviving piece of music, or one of the two earliest, or the second-earliest, depending first on whether one accepts the proposition of Bélis, that the composer of the First Delphic Hymn is named Athenaeus and, second, whether that hymn was composed in the same year as the Second Hymn, or ten years earlier. Limenius was a performer on the kithara and, as a professional musician performing in the Pythaïs, he was required to belong to one of the guilds of the Artists of Dionysus."
tagline: "Ancient Greek composer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "-128"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.92
  momentum:             6.315789473684211
  historical:           6.803132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ab0f1463-0718-43d5-a3fd-1ad9dcd74c57"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Λιμένιος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenius"
    title: "Limenius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenio"
    title: "Limenio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "لیمنیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenio"
    title: "Limenio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim%C3%AAnio"
    title: "Limênio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenije"
    title: "Limenije"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1563743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump