Chersias
Chersias of Orchomenus (fl. Late 7th century BCE) was an archaic Greek epic poet whose work is all but lost today. Plutarch presents Chersias as an interlocutor in the Banquet of the Seven Sages, making him a contemporary of Periander and Chilon.
Chersias
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- writer · poet
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- epic poem
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Also said to have been present when Periander's father Cypselus dedicated a treasury at Delphi. According to Pausanias, Chersias' poetry had already fallen out of circulation by his day, but the geographer quotes the only extant fragment of his epic poetry, citing a speech delivered by Callippus of Corinth (5th century BCE) to the Orchomenians as the source: From Poseidon and much-famed Mideia Aspledon was born, a son in the wide-wayed city. This fragment suggests that Chersias, like his apparent contemporary Asius of Samos, composed in the genre of genealogical epic best represented today by the fragmentary Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Pausanias goes on to relate that Chersias composed the epitaph which the Orchomenians inscribed upon the base of a statue they erected in Hesiod's honor: Ascra rich in wheat was his fatherland, but in death the land of the horsedriving Minyans holds the bones of Hesiod, whose fame is greatest among humans when men are judged by the touchstone of art.
The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are epic poem.
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- 1.Robert, 1877, pages=145–6 , argued that the verses quoted by Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias were the invention of Callippus of Corinth, but this view has not gained traction; cf. .
- 2.Plut. Moralia 156e–f.
- 3.Plut. Moralia 164a.
- 4.Paus. 9.38.9.
- 5.West, 2003, pages=31–2 .
- 6.Paus. 9.38.10. This epitaph is also preserved in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod; cf. .
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