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Headword:
*ko/louqos
Adler number: kappa,1951
Translated headword: Colluthus, Kolouthos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: From Lykopolis,[1] from
Thebes,[2] epic poet, lived in the time of the emperor Anastasius. He wrote
Kalydonian Histories in six books[3] and verse panegyrics and
Persian Histories.[4]
Greek Original:*ko/louqos, *lukopoli/ths, *qhbai=os, e)popoio/s, gegonw\s e)pi\ tw=n xro/nwn basile/ws *)anastasi/ou. e)/graye *kaludwniaka\ e)n bibli/ois e(\c kai\ e)gkw/mia di' e)pw=n kai\ *persika/.
Notes:
C5 AD. See generally OCD(4) p.347.
[1] In Egypt.
[2] This must refer to the Roman province of Thebais. See Pleiades entry under web address 1.
[3] Kalydon, famed in mythology for its Boar, was in
Aitolia (NW Greece).
[4] (That is, an account of the Persian War of Anastasius, AD 506.) This list excludes the only surviving work, the
Abduction of Helen.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; epic; geography; historiography; mythology; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 August 2001@05:50:20.
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