1) Theatre character
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[character] I. Cinesias is Myrrhine`s husband in Aristophanes play Lysistrata, in which the women of Greece comically impose a moratorium on all sexual activity as a means to ending the Peloponnesian War. Cinesias (whose name is meant to be a sexual pun of sorts as it derives from kinew or I move, I arouse) makes his way to the Acropolis, w...
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[poet] Cinesias (Κινησίας; c. 450 – 390 BC) was an innovative dithyrambic poet (an exponent of the `new music`) in classical Athens whose work has survived only in a few fragments. An inscription indicates that he was awarded a victory at the Dionysia in the early 4th century (IG 2/32.3028). His contemporary, the comic poet Aristo...
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