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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 59 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEISANDER , of Camirus in See also:

Rhodes, See also:Greek epic poet, sup-posed to have flourished about 64o B.C. He was the author of a Heracleia, in which he introduced a new conception of the See also:hero, the See also:lion's skin and See also:club taking the See also:place of the older Homeric equipment. He is also said to have fixed the number of the " labours of See also:Hercules " at twelve. The See also:work, which according to See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria (Stromata, vf'. ch. 2) was simply a See also:plagiarism from an unknown Pisinus of Lindus, enjoyed so high a reputation that the Alexandrian critics admitted the author to the epic See also:canon. From an See also:epigram (20) of See also:Theocritus we learn that a statue was erected in See also:honour of Peisander by his countrymen. He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in See also:Lycia, who lived during the reign of See also:Alexander See also:Severus (A.D. 222-235), and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Eoiai of See also:Hesiod. See fragments in G. See also:Kinkel, Epicorum graecorum fragmenta (1878) ; also F. G. See also:Welcker, Kleine Schriften, vol. i.

(1844), on the twelve labours of Hercules in Peisander.

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