Είλωτες (fr. 148)

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merits on them tell us, which is that he was a παιγνιαγράφος τής ιλαράς
μούσης (“author of light verse of a humorous character”) and that according
to Telecleides (fr. 36) he περί μοιχείας άναστρέφεσθαι (“devoted himself to
seducing women”; presumably a comment on the content of his poetry as
also interpreted by Eupolis). Athenaeus—i. e. Athenaeus’ source—implicitly
identifies Gnesippus with the tragic poet (PAA 279690) referred to only as
“Cleomachus’ son” at Cratin. frr. 17; 276. The basis for this identification is
obscure, but the name is extremely rare (only one other example in LGPNII,
a mercenary soldier mentioned at X. An. 7.3.28). See in general Davidson 2000
(speculative); Hordern 2003; Prauscello 2006 (the latter two both disassembling
much of Davidson’s thesis).
For informal performances of lyric and elegiac poetry (including lyric sec-
tions from tragedy and comedy) at dinner parties and symposia, e.g. fr. 395.2
(Stesichorus); Pherecr. fr. 162.10-12 (Theognis); Ar. Eq. 529-30, quoting Cratin.
fr. 70; V. 1222-48 (Alcaeus and several skolia) with Biles-Olson 2015 ad loc.;
Amips. fr. 21 (a skolion)·, Lissarrague 1990a. 123-39; Csapo and Miller 1991.
381-2 (singers of lyric on Attic red-figure vases); Kugelmeier 1996. 72-82.
1 Στησιχόρου For the lyric poet Stesichorus of Himera (on the north
coast of Sicily), who seems to date to the first half of the 6th century BCE,
see in general fr. 395.2 n.; Hutchinson 2001. 113-19; Finglass, in Davies and
Finglass 2014. 1-91; and the essays collected in Finglass and Kelly 2015. 325
fragments of his poems are preserved, mostly tiny bits and pieces of lines from
the Oxyrhynchus papyri. The mention of him here = PMG 276(b).
Αλκμάνος For the lyric poet Aleman of Sparta, probably active in the
late 7th century BCE, see in general Hutchinson 2001. 71-6 (with older bibli-
ography). 182 fragments of his poems are preserved (PMG 1-177; SLG 1-5).
Aristophanes fr. 590.24-6 (a papyrus commentary) alleges a connection to one
of his poems (SLG 2) in an unidentified comedy.
Σιμωνίδου For Simonides of Ceos, who wrote both lyric and elegiac
poetry and dates to the second half of the 6th century BCE and the first half of
the 5th, see in general Slater 1972; West 1993; Rutherford 2001 (the latter two
on the “New Simonides”); Hutchinson 2001. 285-91. Evaluation of the char-
acter of his poetry (fragments collected at PMG 506-653; IEG 11.114-37; FGE
684-1039) is complicated by the fact that many of the epigrams in particular
are unlikely to be authentic; see in general Petrovic 2007. 25-51. Simonides’
poetry is quoted or referenced in comedy also at Ar. Eq. 406 (PMG 512); Nu.