Cinesias
450 – 390 BC) was an innovative dithyrambic poet (an exponent of the "new music") in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/3 2.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds, in which Cinesias attempts to borrow wings from the birds as an aid to poetic inspiration.
Cinesias
- Born
- 500 · Athens.
- Died
- 400
- Nationality
- Classical Athens
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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450 – 390 BC) was an innovative dithyrambic poet (an exponent of the "new music") in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/3 2.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds, in which Cinesias attempts to borrow wings from the birds as an aid to poetic inspiration.
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Born at Athens in 500, died in 400.
Cinesias (500–400) was a poet and writer.
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Cinesias died.
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Cinesias born at Athens.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 102384932, Cinesias, Atheniensis.
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