Cinesias (Greek: 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 Aristophanes, ridiculed him in his play The Birds, in which Cinesias attempts to borrow wings from the birds as an aid to poetic inspiration.
[1][2] Lysias accused Cinesias of being in a group called the Kakodaimonistai to mock the gods.
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