Cinesias

Cinesias (poet) in Wikipedia

Cinesias (Greek: Κινησίας, c.450-390 BC) was an innovative dithyrambic poet in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/32.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds, in which ...

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Cinesias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Κινησίας). A dithyrambic poet of Athens who was ridiculed by Aristophanes and other writers of comedy, in revenge for which he succeeded in securing the abolition of the choregia for comedy. See Choregus....

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