Archimelus Epigrammaticus 3. Jh. v. Chr
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- tlg0131
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.177
- Tlg id:
- tlg0131
- Name:
- Archimelus Epigrammaticus 3. Jh. v. Chr
- Abbr:
- Archimel.
- Alt names:
- Aρχίμηλος
Archimelos, von Syrakus
Archimelos, Hofdichter Hierons II
Archimelos, Epigrammatiker
Archimelus, Syracusanus
Archimelus, Epigrammaticus
Archimel.
- Field of activity:
- epigrammatist
- Notes:
- AP 7.50
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, p. 53.
"Archime'lus, the author of an epigram on the great ship of Hiero, which
appears to have been built about 220 B.C....." from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Biography and Mythology, Vol 1, 1870, p. 273.
"Archimelus, The writer of a long epigram that describes a gigantic ship,
which Hieron II had built: according to the testimony of the historian and paradoxographer
Moschion (FGrH 575 IIIB p. 677), whom Athenaeus (5,209b-c) quotes directly, the ruler is said
to have paid the poet by sending him 1, 000 medimnoi of grain ‘to the Piraeus’....: Degani, Enzo
(Bologna). "Archimelus." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and
Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2007. Brill Online. Tufts University Library. 19 July 2007
- Author info:
- Smith's Dictionary
- VIAF
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