Pisander
Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC.
Also recorded as Peisandros · Peisander of Camirus · Pisander of Camirus · Pisander of Rhodes
Pisander
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- poet
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- epic poem
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- Heracleia
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC.
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Peisander was the author of a Heracleia (Ἡράκλεια), in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Heracles' costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic era. He is also said to have fixed the number of the labors of Heracles at twelve. The work, which according to Clement of Alexandria (Stromata, yr. ch. 2) was simply a plagiarism from an unknown Pisinus of Lindus, enjoyed so high a reputation that the Alexandrian critics admitted the author to the epic canon. From an epigram (22) of Theocritus we learn that a statue was erected in honor of Peisander by his countrymen. He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in Lycia, who lived during the reign of Alexander Severus and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.
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Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Peisandros, Peisander of Camirus, Pisander of Camirus, Pisander of Rhodes and Peisandros of Kamiros. His recorded language was Ancient Greek. His recorded confession was Ancient Greek religion.
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- 1.Proclo, Vita Homeri, p. 67, 3 test. 7 ; Tzetzes, scoli a Licofrone, p. 1, 23 test. 10 .
- 2.Suida, v. Πείσανδρος (Peìsandros)
- 3.Stefano di Bisanzio, v. Κάμιρος (Càmiros)
- 4.cita Bernabé p. 165 .
- 5.Teocrito, Epigrammi 22 (Antologia Palatina, IX, 598).
- 6.Questa descrizione risalirebbe invece a Stesicoro secondo Megaclide, un antico esegeta di Omero, in una notizia tramandata da Ateneo di Naucrati (Deipnosofisti, XII 512f; ).
- 7.Karl Otfried Müller, Istoria della letteratura greca, op. cit., p. 160
- 8.Stromateis, VI, 2, 25, 2 Stählin.
- 9.Raccolti in .
- 10.VII, 304.
- 11.V. De Falco. L'epigramma attribuito a Pisandro. Rivista indo-greco-italica di filologia, lingua, antichità. 1931.
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