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COLUTHUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLUTHUS  , or COLLUTIius, of Lycopolis in the

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Egyptian Thebaid, Greek epic poet, flourished during the reign of
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Anastasius I . (491–518) . According to Suidas, he was the author of Calydoniaca (probably an account of the Calydonian boar hunt), Persica (an account of the Persian
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wars), and Encomia (laudatory poems) . These are all lost, but his poem in some 400 hexameters on The Rape of
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Helen (`Apra^yr) 'EMin7s) is still extant, having been discovered by Cardinal Bessarion in
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Calabria . The poem is dull and tasteless, devoid of
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imagination, a poor imitation of Homer, and has little to recommend it except its harmonious versification, based upon the technical rules of Nonnus . It related the
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history of Paris and Helen from the
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wedding of
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Peleus and
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Thetis down to the elopement and arrival at Troy . The best
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editions are by
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Van
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Lennep (1747), G . F . Schafer (1825), E . Abel (188o) .

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