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Greek poet and grammarian, a native of See also:Crete, friend and contemporary of Eratosthenes (275—195 B.c.). Suldas says he was at first a slave and overseer of a See also:palaestra, but obtained a See also:good See also:education later in See also:life, and devoted himself to grammatical studies, probably in See also:Alexandria. He prepared a new recension of the Iliad and Odyssey, characterized by See also:sound See also:judgment and poetical See also:taste. His bold atheteses are frequently mentioned in the scholia. He also wrote epigrams, eleven of which, preserved in the Greek See also:anthology and See also:Athenaeus, show elegance and vivacity. But he was chiefly known as a writer of epics (mythological and ethnographical), the most celebrated of which was the Messeniaca in six books, dealing with the second Messenian See also:war and the exploits of its central figure See also:Aristomenes, and used by See also:Pausanias in his See also:fourth See also:book as a trustworthy authority. Other similar poems were the Achaica, Eliaca, and Thessalica. The Heracleia was a See also:long mythological epic, probably an See also:imitation of the poem of the same name by See also:Panyasis, and containing the same number of books (fourteen). Fragments in A. See also:Meineke, Analecta Alexandrina (1843); for Rhianus's See also:work in connexion with See also:Homer, see C. Mayhoff, De Rhiani Studiis Homericis (See also:Dresden, 1870) ; also W. See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898).

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