Olen (poet)
Olen ( Ὠλήν ) was a legendary poet, founder of cults and priest of early Greek times.
After Pausanias , Olen was a Lycian and the author of the oldest hymns . Elsewhere, Pausanias quotes the tradition of a Delphic hymn poet named Boio , according to which Olen came to Delphi with others from Hyperborea , where he founded the oracle of Apollo and was the first to dress prophecies in the form of hexameters .
He is also mentioned as a cult founder and hymn poet in Delos , where hymns to Eileithyia , Hera and to the hyperborean virgins Opis and Arge are ascribed to him. They were still sung there at the time of Pausanias in the 2nd century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 9.27.2
- ↑ Callimachos 4th Hymnos (on Delos) 304f
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 10.5.7-8
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 1.18.5; 2.13.3; 5.7.8; 8.21.3; 9.27.2
- ↑ Herodotus Histories 4.35
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SURNAME | Oil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek poet, cult founder and priest |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 5th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | before 5th century BC Chr. |