Cinaethon of
Sparta
Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referr ...
( el, Κιναίθων ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος ''Kinaithon ho Lakedaimonios'') was a legendary
Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics ''
Oedipodea
The ''Oedipodea'' ( grc, Οἰδιπόδεια) is a lost poem of the Theban cycle, a part of the Epic Cycle (). The poem was about 6,600 verses long and the authorship was credited by ancient authorities to Cinaethon (), a barely known poet ...
'', ''
Little Iliad'' and ''
Telegony
The ''Telegony'' (Greek: , ''Tēlegoneia''; la, Telegonia) is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. His name ("born far away") is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca. It was p ...
''.
Eusebius
Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Chris ...
says that he flourished in 764–3 BC.
[ West, Martin L. ''Greek Epic Fragments''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 250-255.]
Select editions and translations
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Translations
* . (The link is to the 1st edition of 1914.) English translation with facing Greek text; now obsolete except for its translations of the ancient quotations.
* . Greek text with facing English translation
Notes
References
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Ancient Spartan poets
Early Greek epic poets
8th-century BC Spartans
8th-century BC poets
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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