Eumelus
Eumelus
- Martin Litchfield West
Extract
Eumelus (fl. c.740 bce), reputed Corinthian poet and member of the *Bacchiadae. He was credited with a Prosodion that the Messenians performed on Delos (PMG 696), which perhaps in reality dated from the time of the second Messenian War (c.650); also with three or more lost epics, which must be dated even later. The Titanomachy (also ascribed to *Arctinus) provided the divine prehistory to the Corinthiaca, which was a dynastic history from Helios at least as far as *Glaucus (2). The Europia told the story of Europa and consequent myths from a Sicyonian-Corinthian perspective. The three poems together may have formed a sort of Corinthian epic cycle.
Subjects
- Greek Literature
