caption native_name_lang death_date death_place birth_place image_size ethnicity relatives native_name birth_date alt notable_works image article_title name occupation death_cause
bust of panyassis . greek 454 bc halicarnassus halicarnassus 150 px greek herodotus -lrb- nephew or cousin -rrb- Πανυάσις 5th-century bc bust of panyassis . heracleia ionica paniasis de halicarnaso.jpg panyassis
 panyassis poet executed
panyassis

panyassis of halicarnassus , sometimes known as panyasis -lrb- ancient greek -rrb- , was a 5th-century bc greek epic poet , famous for the `` heracleia '' and the `` ionica '' .
it is believed that he also wrote other works which have since been lost .
he was critically unappreciated during his lifetime , but was posthumously recognised as one of the greatest poets of archaic greece .
he was either herodotus ' uncle or cousin .
in 454 bc , panyassis was executed for political activities by the tyrant of halicarnassus and grandson of artemisia , lygdamis ΙΙ -lrb- -rrb- , after an unsuccessful uprising against him .
