Likymnios of Chios (Greek: Λικύμνιος, Latin: Licymnius) was an ancient Greek dithyrambic poet from Chios, probably born in the fourth century BCE although this is not certain.[1]
Aristotle mentions him in his "Rhetoric", saying that Likymnios' works were as good[2] in written form as spoken or better.[3] He is also mentioned by Chaeremon of Alexandria. Partii says that he wrote a poem about the conquest of Sardis and Eustathius of Epiphania mentions him in a poem as Λικύμνιον Βουπραδιέα ἀοιδόν. In his Erotica Pathemata, Parthenius of Nicaea credits the story of Nanis to Likymnios and Hermesianax.[4]
Of his dithyrambs none are wholly extant; they are survived only by fragments recorded in the works of others. One such fragment, concerning Hypnos and Endymion, his lover, is preserved in Athenaeus of Naucratis' Deipnosophistae[5][6]. Another of his fragments, a prayer for health rendered in poetic verse, was preserved by Sextus Empiricus in Against Ethicists[7], although the attribution is uncertain; of the six preserved lines, three lines are identical to lines in the a known paean, also to health, by Ariphron of Sicyon.
Notes
edit- ↑ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Licymnius, p. 836; Smith, s.v. Licy'mnius.
- ↑ Kowalzig, Barbara; Wilson, Peter (2013-06-27). Dithyramb in Context. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199574681.
- ↑ The Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Licymnius, p. 836.
- ↑ Lightfoot, Jane Lucy (2009). Hellenistic collection: Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax, Euphorion, Parthenius. Loeb classical library. Cambridge (Mass): Harvard university press. pp. 614–615. ISBN 978-0-674-99636-6.
- ↑ Athénée; Olson, S. Douglas (2010). The Learned Banqueters. Loeb classical library. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0-674-99639-7.
- ↑ Athenaeus; Olson, S. Douglas (2006). The learned banqueters. The Loeb classical library. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-0-674-99620-5.
- ↑ Sextus; Sextus (2015). Against the physicists. Sextus Empiricus / with an English translation by R.G. Bury. Translated by Bury, R. G. (Reprinted of the edition 1936 ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England: Harvard University Press. pp. 410–411. ISBN 978-0-674-99344-0.
References
edit- Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (2012-03-29). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. OUP Oxford. p. 836. ISBN 9780199545568.
- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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