Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2021
The sixth-century BC poet and αὐλητής, ‘piper’, Sacadas of Argos enjoys little κλέος, ‘renown’, in the modern world.1 He gets a brief entry in West 1992, where only three of the eight or so ancient testimonia are to be found, and an eight-line article in the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (repeated in the fourth edition) which is no more informative and denies that any of his work has survived. He was more generously handled by Gentili and Prato in 1985.2
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