Lesches

Lesches

Lesbos, and flourished about 660 BC (others place him about 50 years earlier). Proclus^[2]

The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, was commonly attributed to Lesches.

Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.^[5] Some ancient authorities ascribe the work to a Spartan named Cinaethon, and even to Homer

References

^ "Lescheos the son of Aeschylinus of Pyrrha" in Pausanias x. 25. 5; also in x. 26. 4 and .8 and x. 27. 1.
^ Proclus. Chrestomathy, ii.
^ Spelman, Henry (2016), "Sappho 44: Trojan Myth and Literary History", Mnemosyne: 7
^ Proclus. Chrestomathy, ii.
^ Aristotle. Poetics, 23.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lesches". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 489.
Georg Heinrich Bode, Geschichte der Hellenischen Dichtkunst, i.
Karl Otfried Müller and John William Donaldson, History of Greek Literature, i. ch. 6
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Der epische Cyclus (1865-1882)

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