Peisander of Laranda
Peisander or Pisander of Laranda (Peísandros ho Larandinós) was a Greek poet who flourished during the reign of Alexander Severus (222–235 AD). He wrote a sixty-book epic called the Heroikai Theogamiai (Ἡρωικαὶ θεογαμίαι, "Heroic Marriages of the Gods") which, like the poetry of his father Nestor of Laranda, appears to have influenced Nonnus' Dionysiaca. Peisander's poem, of which only small fragments survive as quotations in other authors, amounted to "a comprehensive epic on world history".
Peisander of Laranda
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Peisander or Pisander of Laranda (Peísandros ho Larandinós) was a Greek poet who flourished during the reign of Alexander Severus (222–235 AD). He wrote a sixty-book epic called the Heroikai Theogamiai (Ἡρωικαὶ θεογαμίαι, "Heroic Marriages of the Gods") which, like the poetry of his father Nestor of Laranda, appears to have influenced Nonnus' Dionysiaca. Peisander's poem, of which only small fragments survive as quotations in other authors, amounted to "a comprehensive epic on world history".
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Among the extant fragments, there is mention of Io, Cadmus and the Argonauts, but the most significant fragment is the testimony of Macrobius that states that Peisander's history of the world began from the marriage of Zeus and Hera.
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- 1.harvtxt Fornaro 2007 .
- 2.harvtxt Keydell 1935 pp=307–8 .
- 3.harvtxt Hunter 1996 .
- 4.who notes that Macrobius says that Vergil followed Peisander in this formulation, but that Macrobius identification is incorrect (referring to the archaic Peisander) and that the text of Saturnalia 5.2.4 should be taken as evidence that Peisander followed Vergil's lead.
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- Denniston, J.D. Oxford Classical Dictionary. 1996. 9780198661726.
- Fornaro, S. Brill's New Pauly: Antiquity. 10 (Obl-Phe). 2007. 9789004142152.
- Hunter, R.L. Oxford Classical Dictionary. 1996. 9780198661726.
- Keydell, R. R. Keydell, Die Dichter mit Namen Peisandros. Hermes. 70. 301–11. 1935. 4474419.
- Latacz, J. Brill's New Pauly: Antiquity. 9 (Mini-Obe). 2006. 9789004122727.
- Miguélez Cavero, L. Poems in context Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200–600 AD. 2008. 9783110202731.
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