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Olen. The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Olen. The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Olen Semi-legendary Greek bard and seer, and writer of hymns. He is said to have been the first priest of Apollo, his connection with whom is indicated by his traditional birthplace—Lycia or the land of the Hyperboreans, favourite haunts of the god. The Delphian poetess Boeo attributed to him the introduction of the cult of Apollo and the invention of the epic metre. Many hymns, nomes (simple songs to accompany the circular dance of the chorus), and oracles, attributed to Olen, were preserved in Delos. In his hymns he celebrated Opis and Argē, two Hyperborean maidens who founded the cult of Apollo in Delos, and in the hymn to Eilythyia the birth of Apollo and Artemis and the foundation of the Delian sanctuary. His reputed Lycian origin corroborates the view that the cult of Apollo was an importation from Asia to Greece. His poetry generally was of the kind called hieratic.

1   See Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 305; Pausanias i. 18, ii. 13; v. 7; ix. 27; x. 5; Herodotus iv. 35.

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