OLEN

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OLEN , a semi-legendary

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

bard

BARD

and seer, and writer of hymns. He is said to have been the first priest of Apollo, his connexion with whom is indicated by his traditional birthplaceLycia or the

land

LAND

of the Hyperboreans, favourite haunts of the god. The Delphian poetess Boeo attributed to him the introducion of the cult of Apollo and the invention of the epic metre. Many hymns, nomes (simple songs to accompany the circular dance of the chorus), and oracles, attributed to Olen, were pre-served in Delos. In his hymns he celebrated Opis and Arge, two Hyperborean maidens who founded the cult of Apollo in Delos, and in the hymn to Eilythyia the

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
from the root of the verb " to bear ")

of Apollo and Artemis and the

foundation

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

of the Delian sanctuary. His reputed Lycian origin corroborates the view that the cult of Apollo was an importation from

Asia

ASIA

Greece

GREECE

. His poetry generally was of the

kind

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

called hieratic.
See Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 305; Pausanias i. 18; ii. 13; V. 7 ; ix. 27 ; X. 5;

Herodotus

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

iv. 35.

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