Isyllos
Isyllos ( Greek Ἴσυλλος Ísyllos ) was an ancient Greek poet. He lived around 300 BC BC and was the creator of the Asclepius mythology in his hometown Epidaurus .
A number of poems by Isyllos have been preserved on a single inscription. Their literary value is modest. Above all, the poem in which he gives Asklepios a new ancestry is important. In the older version, Apollo fathered Asclepius with Koronis , daughter of King Phlegyas of Trikka ( Thessaly ). While she was still pregnant, Koronis cheated on Apollon, who kills her and saves the child Asklepios. At Isyllos, Zeus gives the muse Erato to Malos , whose daughter Cleophema with Phlegyas, here a king of Epidaurus, fathered the daughter Aigle (called Koronis). Apollo falls in love with her and begets Asclepius with her.
The new mythology is intended to underpin the primacy of the Asclepius cult of Epidaurus over that of Trikka (which is also otherwise postulated in the poem of Isyllos).
literature
- Doris Meyer: Isyllos . In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Volume 2: The Literature of the Classical and Hellenistic Period. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , pp. 183-185
- Lutz Käppel : Isyllos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 1152.
- Antje Kolde: Politique et religion chez Isyllos d'Epidaure (= Swiss contributions to classical studies , volume 28). Schwabe, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-7965-2000-6 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Isyllos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isyllos of Epidaurus; Ἴσυλλος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |