Lesches

Lesches in Wikipedia

Lesches[1] is a semi-legendary early Greek poet and the reputed author of the Little Iliad. According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos, and flourished about 660 BC (others place him about 50 years earlier). He may have spent part of his career at Mytilene, for Proclus[2] refers to him as "Lesches of Mytilene". ...

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Lesches in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Λέσχης) or Lescheus (Λέσχευς). A Cyclic poet, a native of Mitylené or Pyrrha, in the island of Lesbos, and considerably later than Arctinus. The best authorities concur in placing him in the time of Archilochus, or about B.C. 708-676. Hence the account which we find in ancient authors, of a contest between Arctinus and Lesches, can only mean that ...

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