Peisander

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Peisander (

epic poet
, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC.

Biography

Peisander was the author of a Heracleia (Ἡράκλεια), in which he introduced a new conception of the hero

Alexander Severus and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
.

References

  • Fragments in G. Kinkel, Epicorum graecorum fragmenta (1878). Internet Archive.
  • F. G. Welcher, Kuleana Schriften, vol. i. (1844); on the twelve labors of Heracles in Peisander.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peisander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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