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Encyclopedia Britannica



PEISANDER

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 59 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PEISANDER , of Camirus in Rhodes, Greek epic poet, sup-posed to have flourished about 64o B.C. He was the author of a Heracleia, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero, the
lion
 's skin and
club
  taking the place of the older Homeric equipment. He is also said to have fixed the number of the " labours of Hercules " at twelve. The
work
 , which according to Clement of
Alexandria
  (Stromata, vf'. ch. 2) was simply a plagiarism from an unknown Pisinus of Lindus, enjoyed so high a reputation that the Alexandrian critics admitted the author to the epic
canon
 . From an
epigram
  (20) of Theocritus we learn that a statue was erected in honour of Peisander by his countrymen. He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in
Lycia
 , who lived during the reign of Alexander Severus (A.D. 222-235), and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Eoiai of
Hesiod
 .
See fragments in G.
Kinkel
 , Epicorum graecorum fragmenta (1878) ; also F. G. Welcker, Kleine Schriften, vol. i. (1844), on the twelve labours of Hercules in Peisander.


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