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325: 378: 22: 383: 362: 187:, show elegance and vivacity. But he was chiefly known as a writer of epics (mythological and ethnographical), the most celebrated of which was the 453: 424: 307: 473: 493: 355: 175:, characterized by sound judgment and poetical taste. His bold atheteses are frequently mentioned in the scholia. He also wrote 279: 448: 483: 468: 417: 348: 86: 458: 105: 58: 488: 65: 43: 463: 443: 410: 72: 478: 159:, but obtained a good education later in life and devoted himself to grammatical studies, probably in 54: 39: 32: 233:
Rhianos also wrote a number of homoerotic epigrams, and was also mentioned in one of Greek poet
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was a long mythological epic, probably an imitation of the poem of the same name by
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in his fourth book as a trustworthy authority. Other similar poems were the
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