Cinaethon of Sparta
Ancient Greek writer
Cinaethon of Sparta (Greek: Κιναίθων ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος Kinaithon ho Lakedaimonios) was a legendary Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony. Eusebius 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.
01Select editions and translations
Critical editions
- Kinkel, Gottfried (1877). Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta. Vol. I. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag.
- Allen, Thomas W. (1993) [1912]. Homeri opera. Tomus V: Hymni, Cyclus, Fragmenta, Margites, Batrachomyomachia, Vitae. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-814534-9.
- Bernabé, Alberto (1988). Poetae epici Graecae. Vol. I. Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-598-71706-2.
- Davies, Malcolm (1988). Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3-525-25747-0.
Translations
- Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (1936) [1914]. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Loeb Classical Library (3rd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99063-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help). (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.
- West, Martin L. (2003). Greek Epic Fragments. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99605-2.. Greek text with facing English translation.
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