Rhianus

Rhianus

▪ Greek poet and scholar
born c. 275 BC

      Greek poet and scholar from Crete and a slave. His only surviving works are 10 or 11 epigrams of some merit preserved in the Greek Anthology and a small number of hexameter fragments. He was best known as an epic poet, producing five epics, though the contents of only one, the Messeniaca, dealing with a 7th-century war between Messene and Sparta, are known. He evidently paid little heed to those contemporary writers such as Callimachus and Theocritus who were calling for a smaller scale in epic poetry, though some borrowings from Callimachus can be detected in his extant verses.

Additional Reading
Alan Cameron, Callimachus and His Critics (1995).

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