Eugammon of Cyrene

Eugamon (or Eugammon ) was an ancient Greek, native of Cyrene kyklischer poet of the 6th century BC According to relatively late antique attribution he is the author of the epic cycle calculated and signs ends following the odyssey of the past life stories of the legendary hero Odysseus epic have been telegony.

Proclus, who gave a description of the contents of individual poems of the Epic Cycle in his anthology of extracts obtained, called Eugamon as the author of telegony, as Eusebius of Caesarea, the Eugamons Akme to 568-565 BC ( 53 Olympics of the ancient Greek era) attaches. These true indication of Eustathius of Thessalonica in the Homer 's comment that the author of the telegony was Cyrenians. The modern research provides clear grounds for believing that the telegony was compiled in the 6th century BC in Cyrene from older epics, because it appeared a Arkesilaos as the son of Odysseus and Penelope, what name more then reigning kings of Cyrene led. Therefore, the assumption is obvious that these kings should be presented by the author of the Cyrenaic telegony as descendants of Odysseus. Whether the author's name but was actually Eugamon, must remain undecided. So Eusebius of Caesarea also mentioned about a Kinaithon of Sparta as the alleged author of a telegony.

According to Clement of Alexandria to Eugamon intellectual theft perpetrated by he had written in the drafting of telegony a book of mythical Greek author Musaios about Odysseus ' adventures in Thesprotia, without citing its source and output as own work.

In the comprehensive two books, only very fragmentary telegony on two trips of the Ulysses was reported, the first of which took him to Eli, and the second after Thesprotia, where he married the Queen Callidice and supported them in the fight against the Thracian tribe of the Bryger. When Odysseus had returned to Ithaca, he was killed by his begotten son Telegonus with Kirke, who had been looking for him his unknown father and after the discovery of the mistake regretted his unfortunate fact.