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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 The ''Oedipodea'' ( grc, Οἰδιπόδεια) is a lost poem of the Theban cycle, a part of the Epic Cycle (). The poem was about 6,600 verses long and the authorship was credited by ancient authorities to Cinaethon (), a barely known poet wh ...

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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 ...

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Telegony The ''Telegony'' (Greek: , ''Tēlegoneia''; la, Telegonia) is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. His name ("born far away") is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca. It was par ...

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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.

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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

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References

* . Ancient Spartan poets Early Greek epic poets 8th-century BC Spartans 8th-century BC poets Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Greece-poet-stub