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 referre ...
( el, Κιναίθων ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος ''Kinaithon ho Lakedaimonios'') was a legendary
Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics ''
Oedipodea'', ''
Little Iliad
The ''Little Iliad'' (Greek: , ''Ilias mikra''; la, parva Illias) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of t ...
'' and ''
Telegony''.
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 Christian ...
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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