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See also:PANYASIS (more correctly, PANYASSIS) , of See also:Halicarnassus, See also:Greek epic poet, See also:uncle or See also:cousin of See also:Herodotus, flourished about 470 B.C . He was put to See also:death by the See also:tyrant Lygdamis (c . 454) . His See also:chief poems were the Heracleias in 14 books, describing the adventures of Heracles in various parts of the See also:world, and the lonica in elegiacs, giving an See also:account of the See also:founding and See also:settlement of the Ionic colonies in See also:Asia See also:Minor . Although not much esteemed in his own See also:time, which was unfavourable to epic See also:poetry, he was highly thought of by later critics, some of whom assigned him the next See also:place to See also:Homer (see Quixltilian, Inst. oral . X . I . 54) . The few extant fragments show beauty and fullness of expression, and harmonious See also:rhythm . Fragments in G . See also:Kinkel, Epic. poet. fragmenta (1877), ed. separately by J . P . Tzschirner (1842); F . P . Funcke, De Panyasidis vita (1837) ; R . Krausse, De Panyasside (1891) . |
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a question- do we know the ancestry of panyassis and hence of herodotus ? one source claimed herodotus as half asiatic - could he have had persian or other analtolian blood ?? or phoenecian ? who has written the scholarly and definititive study of herodotus and panyassis and their family trees ??? thomas daffern
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