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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 77 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OLEN , a semi-legendary See also:

Greek See also:bard and seer, and writer of See also:hymns. He is said to have been the first See also:priest of See also:Apollo, his connexion with whom is indicated by his traditional birthplace—See also:Lycia or the See also:land of the See also:Hyperboreans, favourite haunts of the See also:god. The Delphian poetess Boeo attributed to him the introducion of the cult of Apollo and the invention of the epic See also:metre. Many hymns, nomes (See also:simple songs to accompany the circular See also:dance of the See also:chorus), and oracles, attributed to Olen, were pre-served in See also:Delos. In his hymns he celebrated Opis and Arge, two Hyperborean maidens who founded the cult of Apollo in Delos, and in the hymn to Eilythyia the See also:birth of Apollo and See also:Artemis and the See also:foundation of the Delian See also:sanctuary. His reputed Lycian origin corroborates the view that the cult of Apollo was an importation from See also:Asia to See also:Greece. His See also:poetry generally was of the See also:kind called See also:hieratic. See See also:Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 305; See also:Pausanias i. 18; ii. 13; V. 7 ; ix. 27 ; X.

5; See also:

Herodotus iv. 35.

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