Meleager
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- tlg1492
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.913
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- tlg1492
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- LCCN n 82162698
- Name:
- Meleager
- Abbr:
- Mel.
- Alt names:
- Μελέαγρος
Meleager, of Gadara
Méléagre
Meleagros
Meleagro, di Gadara
Meleagro
Moirous
Meleager, Epigrammaticus
Mel.
- Field of activity:
- Epigrammatist
Anthologist
- Notes:
- Trifles, imitatives of the chaster style of Meleager ... 1818
Encycl. Brit. (Meleager from Gadara, 1st cent. B.C.)
Oxford class. dict. (Meleager, poet and philosopher)
Papyros-Larous. (Meleagros, philosophos ek GadaroÌn)
Moevs, R. Epigram, c1982: p. 2 (Moirous)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 264
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol , 1867, p. 1:
Brill's New Pauly: "Meleager, utstanding epigrammatist and author of lost satires in the style of
his countryman Menippus [4] (cf. Athens 4,157b
11,502c), as whose successor he regarded himself
M. lived approximately between 130 and 70 BC.
According to several autobiographical epigrams (Anth. Pal. 7,417-419
421), he was born in Gadara but was educated in Tyre
he ultimately moved to Cos where
he perhaps compiled his ‘Garland ’ (cf. Anthology C.) and was given citizenship. He was simultaneously a Syrian, Phoenecian and Greek and so according to a cosmopolitan
ideal held up by the Cynics, he was ‘a citizen of the world’ (Anth. Pal. 7,417,5f.)....The ‘Greek Ovid’, as he has been called (cf. [1]), also takes his place among the greatest
and best-represented poets in the Greek ‘Anthology (132 epigrams)...." from Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna). "Meleager." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and
Helmuth Schneider
. Brill, 2011. Brill Online.
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