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Headword:
*mene/laos
Adler number: mu,604
Translated headword: Menelaos, Menelaus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of
Aigai,[1] epic poet. He wrote a
Thebaid in 11 volumes, and other things.
Greek Original:*mene/laos, *ai)gai=os, e)popoio/s. e)/graye *qhbai/+da e)n bibli/ois ia#, kai\ a)/lla.
Notes:
?post C1 BCE; FGrH 384.
[1] There were several cities of this name (cf.
alpha 1128), and which of them might be meant here cannot be determined. Note, however, that Kuster wanted to change the toponym to Anaia, on the basis of
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. (who says that 'Menelaos the Peripatetic philosopher' came from there).
Keywords: biography; epic; geography; historiography; mythology; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 June 2004@11:24:51.
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