Panyassis

Panyassis, also Panyasis (Greek Πανύασις, also Πανύασσις; * about 505/500 BC in Halicarnassus, † about 455/450 just there) was an ancient Greek Ependichter.

Life

Panyassis was a relative, probably cousin, the historian Herodotus and belonged to the aristocracy of Halicarnassus. Having had taken there by 460 BC the tyrant Lygdamis the rule, had to emigrate Panyassis Herodotus and Samos. A few years later Panyassis returned to his hometown and was executed by Adriani.

Works

From Panyassis two plants are known which have not been handed down to a few fragments.

( Ἰωνικά ), " Ionic stories ," according to Suda 7000 verses in couplets. The work described the history of Ionia from the mythical period until the foundation of the Ionian colonies.

( Ἡράκλεια, sometimes Ἡρακλειάς or Ἡρακληΐς ), about the demigod Hercules, 9000 hexameters, which were divided into 14 books. The obtained fragments ( about 60 verses ) that Panyassis except the twelve canonical deeds also described, and offer an insight into the contemporary Greek mythology.

Afterlife

While the Ionika were overtaken by later prose works, such as Herodotus, the Heraclea were still in the Hellenistic period, a frequently used source of mythological representations.

In the 2nd or 1st century BC Panyassis and Herodotus of Halicarnassus received an honorary monument as the most famous sons of the city.