Cinaethon of Sparta

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Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon is a legendary early Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony. Eusebius (Chronicle Olympiad 4.1) says that he flourished in 764/3 BC.

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  • Greek epic fragments ed. and tr. Martin L. West (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003) pp. 250-255.
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