Kinaithon

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Kinaithon of Lacedaemon was an epic poet who, according to Eusebius, lived around 760 BC. Worked. Modern research assumes, however, that the time indication follows the endeavors of ancient authors to make early epics appear as old as possible. Irad Malkin limits his creative period between 620 and 550 BC. A. Kinaithon is mentioned as the author of the Oidipodeia , the Little Iliad , Telegonia and a Herakleia , but only the authorship of the Γενεαλογίαι (Genealogiai) can be ascribed to him with certainty .

literature

  • Greek epic fragments ed. And tr. Martin L. West (Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 2003) pp. 250-255.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Eusebius, Chronicle Ol.4.1 = 464/63 BC Chr.
  2. ↑ Christos Tsagalis: Early Greek Epic Fragments I. Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 183
  3. ^ Irad Malkin: Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press 1993, 2nd ed. (2003), p. 21
  4. ↑ Christos Tsagalis: Early Greek Epic Fragments I. Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 183
personal data
SURNAME Kinaithon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek poet
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.