Cinaethon of Sparta or Kinaithon of Lakedaimon is a legendary early Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony. Eusebius (Chronicle Olympiad 4.1) says that he flourished in 764/3 BC. Cyclic Poets are epic poets who followed Homer and wrote poems and songs about the Trojan war. ... The Little Iliad (Greek: Ἰλιὰς μικρά, Ilias mikra; Latin: Ilias parva) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. ... The Telegony (Greek: Τηλεγόνεια, Telegoneia; Latin: Telegonia) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. ... Eusebius is the name of several significant historical people: Pope Eusebius - Pope in AD 309 - 310. ...

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• Greek epic fragments ed. and tr. Martin L. West (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003) pp. 250-255.