Cinesias : Innovative Dithyrambic Poet, Exponent of "New Music," Ridiculed by Aristophanes but Outsider Chosen as Victor at the Dionysia Theater Competition450 BCE — 390 BCE |
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An innovative dithyrambic poet (an exponent of the "new music") in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/32.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds...
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