Lost Poems
He wrote laudatory poems (ἐγκώμια διʼ ἐπῶν), an
heroic poem, in six books, entitled
Καλυδονικά, and
another entitled
Περσικά. These are all lost.
The Rape of Helen (
Ἐλένης
ἁρπαγή)
His poem on
The Rape of Helen (
Ἐλένης
ἁρπαγή) was discovered, with Quintus Smyrnaeus, by the Cardinal Bessarion in
Calabria.
The poem, as it now stands, consists of 392 hexameter lines, and is an unsuccessful
imitation of Homer.
Editions
It was first printed by Aldus, 8vo. (no date): more accurately, with
ingenious conjectural emendations, by H. Stephens in his Poetae
Graeci Principes, Par. 1566, fol.Several Latin versions and reprints of the text appeared in the 16th, 17th, and 18th
centuries, the most important of which is the edition of Io. Dan. Lennep,
Leonard. 1747, 8vo.The latest and best editions are those of Bekker, Berl. 1816, 8vo., and
Schaefer, Lips. 1825, 8vo.