Cinaethon of
Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...
( ''Kinaithon ho Lakedaimonios'') was a legendary
Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics ''
Oedipodea'', ''
Little Iliad'' and ''
Telegony''.
Eusebius
Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima. ...
says that he flourished in 764–3 BC. Cinaethon's poetry is preserved only in fragments, primarily preserved by
Pausanias. The surviving fragments of Cinaethon are from a genealogical poem, and are not attributable to any of the poems he was said to have written.
[ West, Martin L. ''Greek Epic Fragments''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003, p. 31.]
Select editions and translations
Critical editions
* .
* .
* .
* .
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
* .
Ancient Spartan poets
Early Greek epic poets
8th-century BC Spartans
8th-century BC Greek poets
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
{{Greece-poet-stub