An
Athenian poet with sad and melancholy verses, asserted by
Pausanias to be the Athenians' oldest hymn-poet, and first to sing an
iaemos on the tomb of Linus. Previous to
Homer, he had written a poem about
Eros, about the
Charites, without mentioning their number or their names, and
Zeus after
Philostratus and several
hymns, including one to Demeter; he was one of the first to sing the kidnapping of
Persephone, in which he speaks of her playing among narcissus flowers (many years before the legendary
Narcissus), and describes the journeys of
Demeter that followed. ==References==