Nicaenetus of Samos ( el, Νικαίνετος ο Σάμιος) was a
Greek
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epic
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* Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
* Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements
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and
epigram
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matic poet of the 3rd century BC. He was either an
Abderite who lived in
Samos
Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate ...
island or a native Samian.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Nicaenetus
/ref> There are four epigrams of his in the Greek Anthology
The ''Greek Anthology'' ( la, Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Pa ...
.
References
Ancient Library
Ancient Greek epic poets
Abderites
Ancient Samians
3rd-century BC Greek people
3rd-century BC poets
Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
Hellenistic poets
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