Cynaethus or Cinaethus or of Chios was a rhapsode , a member of the Homeridae , sometimes said to have composed the Homeric Hymns Homeric Hymn to Apollo . The main source of information on Cynaethus is a Scholium to Pindar s second Pindar Victory odes Nemean ode . ref This is found, with slightly different readings, in in the Scholia Vetera in Pindari Carmina ed. Drachmann , Nemean 2, scholium 1c, and in Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum ed. Karl Wilhelm Ludwig M ller M ller 4.433, Hippostratus frag. 4. The scholium was picked up without reference to the Hymn in the modern commentaries of Thomas Magister and Demetrius Triclinius , Scholia Recentiora Thomano Tricliniana in Pindari Nemea et Isthmia ed. Mommsen 2. ref This tells us that the school of Cynaethus was prominent among the Homeridae and put out many of their own compositions under Homer s name, Cynaethus himself composing the Hymn . He was the first to recite the Homer ic poems at Syracuse, Italy Syracuse , which he did during the 69th Olympiad 504 501 BC . It was once argued that the dating made no sense because the Homeric poems must have reached Syracuse much earlier. ref Therefore, in the 19th century Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker Welcker Epischer Cyclus , p. 243 proposed reading during the sixth or the ninth Olympiad , instead of . during the sixty ninth Olympiad , and dating Cynaethus to about 750 BC. ref However, the original date corresponds well to a probable date of composition of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo , 522 BC. No doubt basing himself on this or a similar text, Eustathius of Thessalonica names Cynaethus as the first to disseminate the Homeric poems and as a forger of Homeric verses. ref Eustathius, Commentarii in Homeri .... West, M.L. Cynaethus Hymn to Apollo . The Classical Quarterly , New Series, Vol. 25, No. 2 Dec. 1975 ... , pp. 364 382. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cynaethus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT ... more details
from him. One famous member, Cynaethus of Chios , was at the centre of a group who were specially active in composing new poems and attaching them to Homer s works. Cynaethus himself was the author ... more details
Other persons Polycrates lang el , son of Aeaces , was the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC. He took power during a festival of Hera with his brothers Pantagnotus and Syloson , but soon had Pantagnotus killed and exiled Syloson to take full control for himself. He then allied with Amasis II , pharaoh of Egypt , as well as the tyrant of Naxos, Greece Naxos Lygdamis of Naxos Lygdamis . With a navy of 100 Penteconter ship penteconters and an army of 1,000 archery archers , he plundered the islands of the Aegean Sea and the cities on the Ionia n coast of Asia Minor , defeating and enslaving the navies of Lesbos Island Lesbos and Miletus . He also conquered the small island of Rhenea , which he chained to nearby Delos as a dedication to Apollo . He had a reputation as both a fierce warrior and an enlightened tyrant. On Samos he built an Tunnel of Eupalinos aqueduct , a large temple of Hera the Heraion of Samos Heraion , to which Amasis dedicated many gifts , and a palace later rebuilt by the Roman emperor Caligula . In 522 BC he celebrated an unusual double festival in honour of the god Apollo of Delos and of Delphi it has been suggested that the Homeric Hymns Homeric Hymn to Apollo , sometimes attributed to Cynaethus of Chios, was composed for this occasion. ref Walter Burkert , Kynaithos, Polycrates and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo in Arktouros Hellenic studies presented to B. M. W. Knox ed. G. W. Bowersock, W. Burkert, M. C. J. Putnam Berlin De Gruyter, 1979 pp. 53 62. ref Polycrates was probably a patron of the poets Anacreon , and Ibycus ref See papyrus fragment of a poem by Ibycus that mentions Polycrates at http www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk POxy VExhibition finds ibycus.html Oxyrhynchus Online With them you too, Polycrates, shall have immortal fame for beauty as long as my song and fame endure. ref and of the Crotone Croton ian doctor Democedes . According to Herodotus , Amasis thought Polycrates was too successful, and advised him to throw away whatev ... more details
italictitle The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty three anonymous Ancient Greek hymn s celebrating individual gods. The hymns are Homeric in the sense that they employ the same epic meter dactylic hexameter as the Iliad and Odyssey , use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. They were uncritically attributed to Homer himself in Antiquity&mdash from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides iii.104 &mdash and the label has stuck. The whole collection, as a collection, is Homeric in the only useful sense that can be put upon the word A. W. Verrall noted in 1894, ref A.W. Verrall. The Hymn to Apollo An Essay in the Homeric Question . The Journal of Hellenic Studies 14 1894 1 29 p. 2. ref that is to say, it has come down labeled as Homer from the earliest times of Greek book literature. History The oldest of the hymns were written in the seventh century BC, somewhat later than Hesiod and the usually accepted date for the writing down of the Homeric epics. This still places the older Homeric Hymns among the oldest monuments of Greek literature but although most of them were composed in the seventh and sixth centuries, a few may be Hellenistic , and the Hymn to Ares might be a late pagan work, inserted when it was observed that a hymn to Ares was lacking. Walter Burkert has suggested that the Hymn to Apollo , attributed by an ancient source to Cynaethus of Chios a member of the Homeridae , was composed in 522 BC for performance at the unusual double festival held by Polycrates of Samos to honor Apollo of Delos and of Delphi . ref Walter Burkert . Kynaithos, Polycrates and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo in Arktouros Hellenic studies presented to B. M. W. Knox ed. G. W. Bowersock, W. Burkert, M. C. J. Putnam Berlin De Gruyter, 1979 pp. 53 62. ref The hymns, which must be the remains of a once more strongly represented genre, vary widely in length, some being as brief as three or four lines, while others are in excess of five hundred lines. T ... more details
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