Cinaethon of Sparta (Greek: Κιναίθων ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος Kinaithon ho Lakedaimonios) was a legendary Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost...
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Cres (mythology) (category Autochthons of classical mythology)
of Crete. According to Cinaethon of Sparta, Cres was the father of Talos. The autochthonous Cres is mentioned in other accounts as the native king of...
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Little Iliad (category Works of uncertain authorship)
ancient writers to Lesches of Pyrrha (7th century BCE), Cinaethon of Sparta (8th century BCE), Diodorus of Erythrae, Thestorides of Phocaea, or Homer himself...
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Cyclic Poets (category Writers of lost works)
Pyrrha Cinaethon of Sparta Thestorides of Phocaea (the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer says that Thestorides used writing) Antimachus of Teos Eumelus of Corinth...
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Talos (redirect from Modern adaptation of the Minoan-Mycenaean figure of Talos)
Rhadamanthus – a mythical king of Crete – his grandson. This tradition is reported by Pausanias, who cites the poet Cinaethon of Sparta as his source. Pausanias...
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after that of the Odyssey and is the final episode in the Epic Cycle. The poem was sometimes attributed in antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta (8th century...
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Circe (category Children of Helios)
πολυ-φάρμα^κος; Homer, Odyssey, 10.276. Homer, Odyssey 10.475—541. Cinaethon of Sparta, Telegony summary Hyginus, Fabulae 127 Timothy Peter Wiseman, Remus:...
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Odysseus (redirect from Son of Laertes)
"Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.72.5". Archived from the original on 16 June 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Cinaethon of Sparta, Telegony...
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poetry of the Trojan cycle, there is no prose summary. The Oedipodea: There are a total of 6,600 verses in which different sources attribute Cinaethon of Sparta...
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of the 5th century BC Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon, a legendary early Greek poet sometimes called the author of the lost epics Oedipodea...
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Menelaus (category Mythological kings of Sparta)
'wrath of the people', from Ancient Greek μένος (menos) 'vigor, rage, power' and λαός (laos) 'people') was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta. According...
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Cicynna Cilix Cilla Cilla (city) Cimon Cimon Coalemos Cimon of Cleonae Cinaethon of Sparta Cineas Cineas (Athenian) Cinyras Cipollino marble Circe Cisseus...
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Nicostratus (mythology) (category Children of Helen of Troy)
(Ancient Greek: Νικόστρατος) is a son of Menelaus, king of Mycenaean Sparta. He was known to Hesiod and epic poet Cinaethon. His name means 'Victorious Army'...
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of Sparta Agesilaus II – King of Sparta Agesipolis I – King of Sparta Agesipolis II – King of Sparta Agesipolis III – King of Sparta Agis I – King of...
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was credited by ancient authorities to Cinaethon (Κιναίθων), a barely-known poet who probably lived in Sparta. Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3...
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Homer (section History of Homeric scholarship)
point to earlier versions of the Odyssey in which Telemachus went in search of news of his father not to Menelaus in Sparta but to Idomeneus in Crete...
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