EUMELUS

Tiianomachy, Τα ας of Corinth, Aretinus, or who
ever the good man may be

Eusebius Chronicle: Fourth year of the Fourth
Olympiad (nc. 701): Flourished Eumelus, the poet
of the Bugonia and the Luropia,

Clement of Alexandria Miscedlanies > Humelus of
Corinth . . . was contemporary with Archias the
founder of Syracuse.t
p. 25, Laur. Lyd. Mens. 4. 48, and for fragments of
these epics Kinkel Lye. Gr. Frag. p, 185.

KUMELUS

1 Processtonat Τὸ Detos

Pausanias Description of Greece [on Messenia]: In the reign
of Phintas sen of Sybotas the Messenians first sent a sacrifice
and a male chorus to Apollo at Delos. Theiv trainer in the
processional sone to the God was Eumélis, and the epic lines
they sang are believed to be the only genuine work of Eumelus
now extant.

The Same fon Ithome]: The Messenians hold a yearly
festival (of Zeus Ithomatas) called the [thomaea. ty ancient
times they had a musical contest too, as is testified, among
other things, by the lines of Eumelus, who wrote in his
Processional to Delos:

For he of Ithome taketh delight in a Muse that
hath a pure lyre and weareth the sandals of freedoin.?

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The Same fon the Chest of Cypselusj: The inscriptions
pon the chest may, of course, be the work of some other
Man, but my impressions on the whole point to Eumelus
of Corinth, particularly in view of his Processional ta Delus.?

Messenia’s strugeles with Sparta ec. 725% 3 the dates are
against P.’s view

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