Syagrus (legendary poet)

Syagrus (legendary poet)

Syagrus is a legendary ancient Greek oral poet. He is said in a traditional list to have been a rival of Homer; elsewhere it is said that he followed Orpheus and Musaeus in chronological sequence and was the first maker of an epic on the Trojan War. This would have been a forerunner of the later poems in the Epic Cycle.

Sources

*Diogenes Laertius, "Lives of the Philosophers" 2.46.
*Aelian, "Varia Historia" 14.21.
*Eustathius of Thessalonica, "Commentary on the Iliad" 1.6.


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