Mimnermus of Colophon 7th cent. B.C

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LCCN n 83319399
Name:
Mimnermus of Colophon 7th cent. B.C
Abbr:
Mimn.
Alt names:
Μίμνερμος
Mimnermo, of Colophon
Mimnermos, ho Kolphōnios,
Mimnermus
Mimnerme, de Colophon‏
Mimnermos, von Smyrna‏
Mimnermos, von Kolophon‏
Mimnermo, Colofonio
Mimnermo, de Colofón‏
Mimnermos
Mimnermus, Colophonius
Mimnermos, Lyriker
Mimnermus, Lyricus
Mimn.
Field of activity:
Elegist
Epigrammatist
Notes:
His Poesía, 1983: t.p. (Mimnermo)
Oxford class. dict. (Mimnermus, Elegist and musician of Colophon)
Megalē Hellēnikē enkykl. (Mimnermos ho Kolophōnios, fl. 632-650 B.C.)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Mimnermus, 7th cent. B.C.)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 272
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 2, 1867, p. 1088: "Mimnermus, a celebrated elegeaic poet.....He was generally called a Colophonian ... but from a fragment of his poem entitled Nanno, it appears that he was descended from those Colophonians who reconquered Smyrna from the Aeolians..."
Brill's New Pauly: "Mimnermus, of Colophon, or Smyrna, 2nd half of the 7th century BC. One of the earliest writers of Greek elegy. In antiquity, he was viewed, along with Callinus [1] and Archilochus as its possible ‘inventor’. The Suda dates M. to the 37th Olympiad (632-629 BC), but the opinion of scholars is divided:..." from Bowie, Ewen (Oxford). "Mimnermus." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2009. Brill Online. Tufts University Library. 02 December 2009
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