Kynaithos from Chios

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Kynaithos of Chios ( Greek Κύναιθος , * and † possibly in the 6th century BC) was a Greek rhapsode .

According to Albin Lesky , Kynaithos, who also appeared as a Homer interpolator and is possibly the author of the Apollo hymn , was the head of a rhapsody school. He is said to have been the first rhapsode to recite Homeric poems in Syracuse . Possibly this happened in the course of the official inclusion of such recitations in the urban agons , whereby the dating is also controversial here. While generally the year 504 BC Allen pleads for a much earlier beginning of this tradition in the year 704 BC. Chr.

literature

  • HT Wade-Gery: The Poet of the Iliad. 1952, pp. 21-23
personal data
SURNAME Kynaithos from Chios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek rhapsode and author
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.