Eumelus of Corinth
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Eumelos of Corinth
)Eumelus of Corinth (
Greek poet to whom were attributed several epic poems as well as a celebrated prosodion, the treasured processional anthem of Messenian independence that was performed on Delos. One small fragment of it survives in a quote by Pausanias.[1] To Eumelus was also attributed authorship of several antiquarian epics composed in the Corinthian-Sicyonian cultural sphere, notably Corinthiaca, an epic narrating the legends and early history of his home city Corinth. The Corinthiaca is now lost, but a written version of it was used by Pausanias in his survey of the antiquities of Corinth.[2]
The epics Eusebius of Caesarea.[4]
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, 4.33.2. Poetae Melici Graeci 696. It was Pausanias' opinion that this was his only authentic work.
- ^ Pausanias (2.1.1) gives his father's name as Amphilytus.
- ^ West 2002, pp. 109–133. West, reviewing the evidence concerning the epic fragments, suggests that Eumelos was the only historical name available.
- ^ Eusebius dates Eumelus as contemporaneous with Archias, his fellow-Bacchiad, who founded Syracuse, about 734BC (West 2002:109 and note 3).
Sources
- JSTOR 3246207.
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