Nikainetos

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Nikainetos ( Greek  Νικαίνετος ) from Samos or Abdera in Thrace was a Greek poet who wrote in the second half of the 3rd century BC. Worked.

Only fragments of his works have survived. Are known:

  • Lýrkos , written in hexameters. A preserved fragment is about Kaunos , the founder of the city ​​of the same name , who flees from the lustful desires of his sister Byblis
  • Catalog of women , presumably coined by the Eoien Hesiods
  • Epigrams

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Collectanea Alexandrina fr. 1
  2. Athenaios Banquet of the Scholars 13, 590b .; Collectanea Alexandrina fr. 2
  3. Collectanea Alexandrina fr. 3-8