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Cinaethon of Sparta

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Ancient Greek poet

WritersLived 800 BC to 800 BC · aged 0
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Cinaethon of Sparta was a legendary Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony. Eusebius says that he flourished in 764-3 BC. Cinaethon's poetry is preserved only in fragments, primarily preserved by Pausanias.

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Cinaethon of Sparta was a legendary Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony. Eusebius says that he flourished in 764-3 BC. Cinaethon's poetry is preserved only in fragments, primarily preserved by Pausanias. The surviving fragments of Cinaethon are from a genealogical poem, and are not attributable to any of the poems he was said to have written.

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Lived 800 BC to 800 BC · aged 0
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12 languages

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