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PEISANDER
, of Camirus in See also:Rhodes, See also:Greek epic poet, sup-posed to have flourished about 64o B.C
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He was the author of a Heracleia, in which he introduced a new conception of the See also:hero, the See also:lion's skin and See also:club taking the See also:place of the older Homeric equipment
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He is also said to have fixed the number of the " labours of See also:Hercules " at twelve
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The See also:work, which according to See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria (Stromata, vf'. ch
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2) was simply a See also:plagiarism from an unknown Pisinus of Lindus, enjoyed so high a reputation that the Alexandrian critics admitted the author to the epic See also:canon
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From an See also:epigram (20) of See also:Theocritus we learn that a statue was erected in See also:honour of Peisander by his countrymen
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He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in See also:Lycia, who lived during the reign of See also: (1844), on the twelve labours of Hercules in Peisander . |
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