Pamphos
Pamphos Ancient Greek Πάμφως (Pamphos) is an Athenian poet, allegedly a contemporary of Linus of Thrace, inventor of the ialémos. Two purported short fragments of his poems survive.
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Pamphos
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- Classical Athens
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- poet
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- Ancient Greek
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Pamphos Ancient Greek Πάμφως (Pamphos) is an Athenian poet, allegedly a contemporary of Linus of Thrace, inventor of the ialémos. Two purported short fragments of his poems survive.
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An Athenian poet with sad and melancholy verses, asserted by Pausanias to be the Athenians' oldest hymn-poet, and first to sing an iaemos on the tomb of Linus. Previous to Homer, he had written a poem about Eros, about the Charites, without mentioning their number or their names, and Zeus after Philostratus and several hymns, including one to Demeter; he was one of the first to sing the kidnapping of Persephone, in which he speaks of her playing among narcissus flowers (many years before the legendary Narcissus), and describes the journeys of Demeter that followed.
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- 1.Macmillan and Company [https://books.google.com/books?id=VEU3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Pamphos+athenian+poet A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce-V. I, pt, II. The dramatic poets-V. 2, pt.1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.-V. 2, pt. II. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle p.14 quotation:
- 2.Pausanias Description of Greece 9.27.2. Tufts University, Perseus Digital Library Project.
- 3.Kharites Cult. Theoi Greek Mythology – Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature and Art.
- 4.Greswell, Edward. Origines kalendariæ Hellenicæ; or, The history of the primitive calendar among the Greeks, before and after the legislation of Solon by Edward Greswell. Classic Reprint Series Oxford: At the University Press M.DCCC.LXII. 1862.
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