Cinaethon of Sparta

Cinaethon of Sparta: Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon is 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.^[1]^[2]

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^ Eusebius. Chronicle, "Olympiad", 4.1.

^ West, Martin L. Greek Epic Fragments. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 250-255.

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