Parmenon(87 words)
[German version]
(Παρμένων; Parménōn) from Byzantium, Hellenistic poet. Four fragments of his choliambic verses are still extant (1,2,4 CollAlex 237; SH 604 A). The humorous description of a drunkard (fr. 1 P.) and the incipit of a hymn to the Nile are particularly expressive; the latter has a catalogue of the inhabitants of various northern Egyptian towns (SH 604 A). It has been assumed that his poetry was influenced by the Cynics [1].
Di Marco, Massimo (Fondi Latina)
Bibliography
1 G.A. Gerhard, Phoinix von Kolophon, 1909, 211-213.
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Di Marco, Massimo (Fondi Latina),
“Parmenon”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 22 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e908440>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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