Peisander
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
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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.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peisander". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the